The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1897-05-15
Saturday, May Is, 1897.

18th. When will it pass
Gen. Miles is on his way to Con-
stantnople to see the Turkish army, or
what is left of it.
The Florida senatorial fight seems
70 drag along, and bids fair to rival the
Kentucky struggle.
And now the overly self-rlghteous
discourse learnedly on the enormity
of-xell-being caught.
1t is declared that Greece will never
pay an indemnity to Turkey. Greece
can never be Turkeys debtor.
A sugar trust man has asked for
clemencv. Can it be that there is some
thing wrong with the sugar trust after
all.
General Sanguilly has arrived in
Cuba. If he is taken prisoner again 1t
will be long time before he is par
doned.
President Kruger, Of the Transval,
wants his differences with England set
tied by arbitration. He should be ac-
commodated.
The Liberal party triumphed in
Quebec in the recent provincial cleo
tions. The issues were not national and
the verdict is without national signii-
cance.
1t is said that the American En-
bassy in London is dark, dirty, dingy,
with shabby, threadbare carpets, dilapi-
dated furniture" But is it not little
Anyzy also?
Chief Toto, of Bechuanaland, South
Africa. has been captured by the Eng
]ish. Canabalistic niggers and bank
smasbers would seem to be getting the
worst of it.
Peru and Bolivia have submitted
their territorial dispute to the arbitra-
ton of Spain. Some people would seem
70 have more confidence in Spain than
tke Cubans have
A London correspondent of Chi
cago newspaper has discovered that
Queen Victoria Is virtually her own
foreign minister. Some English states
men have known this for Years.
Two negro girls were lynched near
JEFF, Alabama, on Tuesday night, for
poisoning The 0'kelley family. Judge
Lynch is certainly no more respecter
of persons than he is of the law.
A paper on what an officer should
,r.c no fha rpl;co oh e,
who are assembled at Pittsburg, Pa, on
Monday. A paper on "What some
officers don't know would prove very
interesting.
According to Erastus Wyman the
duty collected upon Canadian goods en-
tering the United States would barely
pay for a cigar apiece for each inhabi-
tant of this country. And the worst Of it
is that we don't seem to get even the
cigars.
The Cuban question has again been
brought prominently before the public
through the information that many
American citizens on the island are
starving, and a vote of $4,000 to aid
those in distress has been proposed in
the senate.
The ticket scalpers are protesting
against the bills before congress pro-
hibiting competition in the price of I'M
used tickets. They have justice on
their side, if a combination to keep up
prices is illegal, and it has been so de-
clared.
The Central Woman's Christian
Temperance union of Chicago has issued
II word of alarm and warning to young
girls concerning the drinks obtainable
ut the soda-fountains of the city. They
are called by different names; sherry
flip, claret sangaree, creme de menthe,
calisaya, etc, and are ordered by young
girls for cold, to take the place of a
luncheon, or for 4 chance to sit down
to rest after a busy day of shopping
These drinks all contain alcohol.
Chicago is reioicing-that is to say
the citizens of Chicago barring Gerkes
and few others-over the defeat of
Humphreys bills, which, if they
had been passed, would have handed
over the control of the streets of Chi
cago to commission, to be appointed
bv the Governor, for fifty years, and
thus violated the principle of home
rule. If there is anything the people of
Chicago like it is the privilege of mind
ing their own business, even if they do
SomptimnS ma tp mist1Eps
-Canadlan newspapers are roasting
the poet kipling for abiding to the Do
minion as "Our Lady of the SHOWS
If the writer's will read the poems of
one addressed to "Our Lady of the
SHOWS" a shrine and convent in Que
bee. Doubtless kipling read the poem
and used the title with no more thought
that it would give otfense to any one
than did Darcy MCGEE that his humble
offering would give offense TO "Our
Lady of the SHOWS" After all the emf
grant who is So ignorant of Canada rs
not to know that. like this country, it
nbounds in all kinds of climates and is
me nome OF people Al ieast rs soou as
himself, is not wanted this side of the
ocean.
-" In this country all men are equal
in citizenship; there is no civil or poll
teal privilege for the few; there Is no
civil or political inferiority for the
mahy.-Archbishop Ireland
With all due respect to the distin-
ruished prelate and with no reference
TO religious or educational privileges,
we beg to differ with him. We, how
ever, admit that such was the intention
of the trainers of the constitution, but
organizations OF one kind and another
have SET and are setting the constitution
ut defiance. There is much tyranny in