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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1904-12-17
Warhington Letter.

The chief interest in Washington
he past week has been the work of
Congress, what it will do and what it
cannot Go for want of time. A COM
mittee of Republican Senators has
held meeting and decided that gen.
eral legislation for this session of Con-
gress must be confined To- the State
hood and Philippine bills. If this re-
solution is maintained many pet
schemes will 60 over until next De-
cember, including the bills for the
proposed new apportionment of Re-
representatives. ON account Of Southern
acknowledgements; and the Cooper
Quarles bill which would give the In
terstate Commerce Commission pow.
or to regulate railroadrates and fares.
The President claims the sole respon-
sibility for having recommended this
enlargement of the powers of the
Commission. A hearing upon this
bill began yesterday. The represen-
tatives of the Shippers Association, a
strong Western organization, were
present and In favor of the bill. Mr..
Hepburn remarked that so august a
body as the Supreme Court had de-
cided that 1t could not pass upon the
asonableness of rate fixed for the
future. The inference was that the
Interstate Commission could not do
what the Supreme Court cannot.
If Congress approves Of the Presi-
dents recommendation for Federal
inspection service of all railroad roll
ing stock, to ascertain if it is provided
with the hest kind of brakes, and if
they are in working order, it is
pointed out that the inspectors will
have to examine $500, 900 freight cars
200 passenger cars and $4,000 en-
gines. This would give employment
to vast number of men and cause
some travelling. So, too, If there be
Federal inquiry into the accidents
where there has been a loss of life,
there must be at the present rate OF
slaughter, some 5000 inquests annu.
ally. Add to this inspectors for the
proposed block signal service. and
small army OF men will be required to
keep the railroads safe and sound.
But, as many great railways have
Senators in Congress these PROPOSE
tions will hardly be enacted into laws
imm ediately, although it is certain
that the people approve of their
spirit.
Next week, when Senator Taft re-
turns from Panama, he will, at the
request of the President, take up the
case Of the widows and dependents of
soldiers IN Philadelphia, who for
many years have been making sold
iers' uniforms but who are now de-.
prived Of the work by contractors.
An exhaustive study of the whole
question is desired. The Quartermas-
ter Gen. is in favor of the contractors
but the President would gladly give
the work to the poor women if the
statutes allow him to do so. The
contractors bid to make the kersey
trousers worn by soldiers for thirty
seven and one half cents pair. The
women used to get rs cents for the
same work. 1t appears that out of
go, 900 garments made last year by the
seamstresses only II were rejected,
while II much larger per cent of the
contract work was rejected upon the
first examination.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1904-12-17

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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1904-12-17
The Cause of Many
Sudden Deaths.
There is disease prevailing IN

prevailing IN this
; because so decep-
tive. Many sudden
deaths are caused by
it - heart disease,
pneumonia, heart
failure or apoplexy
are often the result
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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1904-12-17

The TIMES has been duly entered Mt the
Post Office In Superior. Wisconsin. Ps scchnd-
class matter.
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-09
Convenient. Deafness.

A number of racetrack men were
standing in the betting ring at Oakland
the other day. One Of them, who was
rather hard of hearing, had just hit the
books for a heavy roll of the green
goods, and consequently he was the
center of an admiring throng. especial
ly those gentlemen known to be in the
tout class.
The lucky one absorbed the fiatter-
'ings of the multitude for few minutes
and then, becoming tired, started away
to place a bet on another likely one. He
had gone but a short distance when he
was approached by a tout all out of
breath and III a hurry.
Say, can you slip me $40 till to-
morrow" said the tout. Il need the
coin bad and have a live one in sight" 2"
Whats that?" asked the one about
to be touched. Il can't understand a
word you say"
II said" shouted the tout, "can you
lend me 500 till Tomorrow"
"Oh, thought you said ten a minute
ago." answered the lucky man.
The tout strolled away to look for
something easy.
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-09
TALK OF THE TOWN
AND H0Pe o. HHE
TIMEG ~
His Var Rates.

On the edge of the Oriental quar-
ter in this city is a modest, oId-fash-
ioned gable-ended house, wherein Is
| domiciled a club, so-called, of Japan
ese youths who are studying the Ian
guage and customs and some of the
means of livelihood among us Occi-
dentals. In pursuit of Western knowl-
edge the daily newspapers have been
generously utilized by these ambitious
youngsters from Nippon.
For a long time one of their bright
fellow countrymen has been earning
small fee by reading TO classes of
young Japanese from the American
press and translating for the benefit of
his less fortunate listeners. who have
not yet mastered the English.
Since the outbreak of hostilities the
classes have increased and many boys
and young men have fiocked to hear
little reader could see visions of much
increase to his income by the demand
for his translations, but here the in
nate patriotism of the Japanese
cropped up. He would not seize the
splendid commercial advantage to be
gained and compel tribute from his
int"~sely concerned fellows. Not he.
Instead the translator gave notice that
while the war lasted his services would
be gratis in dispensing war news to all
who could be accommodated in the
dingy clubhouse. And of such is the
kingdom of Japan!
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-09
RobbiHg the Robbers.


1t was in the '7O's, and not when
Chief Crowley was in office, that a rob-
berry occurred in Chinatown that was
never reported to the upper" office.
There were reasons for not detailing
the detectives on the case, which may
be explained thus:
1t was at the time when gambling
was rampant among the yellow devils,
and when gambling was prosperous in
Chinatown certain officials in the old
City Hall were fat
AT that time $4,000 a month found its
way into an office on the ground floor
through a back door under the stair
way. This $4,000 was payable on the 1st
and 18th of each and every month. The
$500 was placed in a canvas sack in a
drawer at the residence of a Chinaman
on Jackson street. through which it
used to be taken through Fish alley
during the early hours of night to the
City Hall.
On this particular night in December
while the trusted agent was going
through Fish alley with the booty un-
der his heavy overcoat he was hit on
the head with a stuffed club and
knocked down by two fieet-footed men,
who grabbed the bag of gold and es-
capped through a building into Dupont
street. Thence they went their way re-
joicing.
The agent told his story of the rob-
berry to his employer, whom he found
sitting in the back office, with the safe
door open ready to receive the swag.
What was said there was never print
ed, but after that the percentage was
not carried through Fish alley.
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-09

the acme of the efforts made in this direction at the Uni
versity of California. 1t was in the of 1900
that the first attempt made by President Wheeler
to inaugurate vacation school for the benefit OF ali
whose labors prevented regular attendance upon the
university The teaching staff of that first school
composed almost entirely of university professors
The number of pupils less than FIVE hundred At
the last vacation school of 1908 there than
thousand pupils enrolled many OF them from large
Eastern universities The faculty scarcely fell short IN
point of numbers of that engaged in the similar lnsti-
tuition Harvard With the OF teachers
secured for the coming session, the University OF Cali
forna has placed higher standard the educational
worth of its proposed courses than thap ever
achieved by Harvard or any other American university
The coming of such great lights in the world OF know-
edge though their instruction will be completed III
short six weeks carries with profound prestige TOR
State university 1t is safe to say that no such ag
gregaton of master nteects in the realms of thought
has been gathered together at time in the annals OF
American culture. That such gathering should be
brought about the far rim of the continent from
the of intellectual refinement and activity in the
East is significant earliest of what university is
doing for itself and for the intellectual uplifting OF the
Pacific Coast.
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-09
Handy Interpretations.


A few definitions Of Chinese geo.
graphical prefixes and suffixes may be
of service in elucidating the nOmencla-
ture of current war news First, pre-
fixes: Ia, as in Taku. means great,
and siao, as in SiaOpingthOu, means
small. Pei or pc. nan, tung and 81 are
respectively north, south, east and
west. Thus the Pei Ho is the North
River, etc Shang and hal are upper
and lower. Pal, hei and whang are
white. black and yellow. Suffixes are
more numerous and familiar. Kiang.
no tchuan, ula, muren and tchu each
and all mean river. Thus Yalu Kiang
and Lao Ho are simply Yalu River
and Lao River. Shut, kOu, thsuan.
XIII, gOl and ussu are unfamiliar terms.
meaning a brook or small river. Hu.
nor and ONO mean lake, as
in the well known Lob Nor. Pc.
tse and tien mean a small lake or
swamp. or a town situated near such
a place. Hal means sea: thus Whang
Hal is the yellow Sea, Tung Hal is the
Eastern Sea and Nan Hal is the South
ern Sea- Tao. and sometimes shan.
means island, but shan more often
means a me Intain range. Ling is a
pass over a mountain range.
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-09
An Inaccurate Register.

The Naval Register for 1904, giving
the date of duty or leave of all the
officers in the navy to January 1, has
been published and distributed by the
Navy Department AS an official rec
ord it is of little value, owing to the
large number of inaccuracies. many of
which are so fragrant as to attract at
tention at once. This carelessness in
preparation manifested itself two years
ago and the blunders have appeared
in five subsequent annual and semi
annual issues. The errors are espe-
cially numerous in the list of the lower
grades, no less than nineteen Heuten-
ants, nine junior lieutenants and
thirty-three ensigns being credited to
wrong ships or other duty at dates
that were incorrect. Thus Lieutenant
Edward Woods, who appeared in the
Register of 1902 as assigned to the
Monterey on April 4. 1898, is now
credited to the Mayfiower under date
of April 4. 1898. Lieutenant c. T.
Owens is recorded as attached to the
Hist since June 10. 1897. and yet this
vessel was not acquired by the navy
until May. 1898. A third mistake is
in crediting Lieutenant w. r. Sexton
to the torpedo-boat Dale since Decem-
Der Is, 1899. There is a torpedo-boat
destroyer named Dale, launched July
"A. 1900. and placed in commission Oc-
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-09
Nearing the Limit /.

When the sedate London Globe pub
fishes a story like the following il 10
time to pull down the blinds. Says that
sheet:
AN extraordinary effect of light
ming is reported from Lake Grand
lieu, IN the Nantes region in France A
violent tempest burst over the lake
with vivid lightning and thunder A
number OF boats were on the lake. and
while they were hurrying to bank.
there was a tremendous peal of thun-
der. Almost Immediately there fell
among the boats the dead bodies of a
large flock of wild duck, some OF them
roasted TO a nicely, and some charred
to a cinder. Roast duck, cooked by
lightning. reads like a novelty, even in
the freaks Of meteorolOgy."
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-09

tober "a, 1902. and no officer could
have been assigned to this vessel while
1T existed on paper.
The Bureau of Navigation is charged
with supervision of the Navy Register
and the numerous errors are not those
of misprint. but solely due to incOm-
petenee and indifference as to ac-
euracy. The continuous repetition OF
these blunders may be due to the fact
that the Bureau of Navigation has
been so much occupied with the gen.
eral staff scheme, calculated to broaden
its control of naval affairs, as to en-
tirely forget all about its present duty
of publishing correct information re-
garding the personnel of the navy.
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-09
THE UNIVERSITY SUMMER SCHOOL.

THROUGH the efforts of President Wheeler and
the heads of departments at the University of Cali
i fornia the coming summer school at Berkeley is
to be distinctive the educational activities of
try From the largest colleges of the East the uni
verses Of England and the great of learning
on the Continent there is coming corps of teachers
such as no institution of learning has possessed be-
fore.
Professor William Ramsay, the leading chemist and
Professor James Ward, the acknowledged authority upon
psychology will represent the highest scientific thought
of England From France and Belgium there are coming
TO Berkeley for the session Professor Hugo de
Vres, the boanst, and Professor Sante Arrhenus the
physicist Professor Jacques Loeb, the biologist of in,
ternationa note, who is permanent member of
the university staff will also conduct laboratory courses
at the summer session.
The school. which will be presided over bv
men of such reputation the scholastic world will mark
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-09
THE SMITH FAMILY.

~ RESIDENT SMITH is indeed patriarch no mat
r ter what his merits prophet He admitted to
the Senate that he is the father of forty-two chill
dren, all ving-twenyone boys and twentyone girls,
and is proud of them ALL Eleven of them have been
added to the since the revelation abandoning
poygamy communicated through President Wood
ruff. The may suicide but the Smith family has a
promise of continuance.
Mr.. Smith must be thrifty person to support the
pense of such an extensive establishment Utah
make attractive exhibit the St Louis fair than
these orytwo children their father and their FIVE
mothers If accompanied by history of their bringing
up, would give the country valuable hints domestic
economy Did Smith walk the floor with the batch when
they the juvenile agones of cutting teeth? Did
he help steer them through the chcken-pox Group.
measles munps and the other ailments of infancy? Does
he support exclusive family tailor dressmaker doctor
and shoe cobbler? OF he needs domestic chap
lan for he do all that business himself Do they all
meet him and clamor for peanuts and candy
and search his pockets for small change? How is
Christmas? Do they hang up eightyfou stockings for
him fill with sweetmeats, mechanical toys and Noahs
arks?
Mr.. Brigham Roberts, who had little collision with
the House of Representatives which he derailed
preached fervent last Sunday in Salt Lake in
which he expressed his JOY that President Smiths
mony the Senate committee had put the great truths
of Mormonism before millions who could have
known them otherwise. May suggest that the pres
dents evidence also puts little much family before
millions proportion the sacred truths that decorate
it?
The world has feared that it would be by
Smiths and here is this leading the army with
forty-two Smiths AS his record is fortytwo his
twenty-one boys may be expected the compet
tion and if they do we'll the result will be 882
Smiths At this the Jones and Robinson families
will find place lay their heads The of Utah
will be changed Smith and the gospel trumpet will
call Smiths exclusively to salvation.
Brigham Young is it any more, though he -four
ished before the anti-poygamy law. His in
the presidency has done quite we'll in spite of the law
He is president and prophet parent at large and also
director of the Union Pacific Railroad AS such he
has transportation privileges When these fortyeight
Smiths fathe- mothers and children, take trip drec-
tors passes, what chance there for the nonpolyga
nous public to get berth in a Pullman, seat in a
day car. in the diner?
Brigham Roberts may be right about the advertising
the truths of Mormonsm enjoying, but he may be
wrong about the favorable effect The Grand Jury in
Salt Lake will have work its hands when the presi-
dent returns the bosoms of his FIVE families.
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-09
Sunbeam and Daisy.

I amt a wantin' riches-though they're
handy as kin be-
Amt overstOcked with wiSdOm-kaZe
'twould run away with me-
Don't hunger fer the hilltop, whar the
stars an storms you see
Give me sunbeam an a daisyi
The hilltop's high to heaven. whar 1t
sees the break o. day,
An tells the worr about II in a halle
lula way,
But-give to me the meadows an the
music o. the May
Give me sunbeam an daisy!
Too high the hills above US, where the
thunder trumpets call;
A feller on the heights O. them looks
wonderfully small.
The people in the valley air .the happiest
of all
Give me a sunbeam an a daisy.
Atlanta Constitution.
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-09

ENLISTMENT-Sub Geyser-
vile. Cal 1t has been held that mere
ly enlisting in the military or naval
service of foreign sovereign does not
by itself work expatriation of a citizen
of the United States. Naturalization is
the highest but not the only evidence
of expatriation. Such acts, in addition
TO the selection and enjoyment OF a
foreign domicile as amount to a re-
nunciation of United States citizenship
and a willingness to submit to or adopt
the obligations Of a citizen Of the
country or domicile. such as accepting
public employment, engaging in milf
tary service. ETC., may be treated by
the United States Government as af-
fecting expatriation. By expatriation is
meant the renOuncing of the citizenship
of one country to adopt that OF an
other A man may change his citizen
snip. but he cannot change his na-
tionality.
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-09

In debate in the United States Senate the in
teresting fact develoed that certain naval officers
high in councils of the nation retire the
batteshp Oregon primarily for the that she has
not facilities sufficiently gorgeous suit the
fancies and satisfy the luxurious of our
fighting sailors The suggestion retire the great ship
is an outrage Let of esthetc seadogs re-
member that the Oregon has made history and it IS
for any command her guns, in peace or
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-09

street conductor of Elizabeth, N J., when ac-
cused of bgamy frankly confessed that he had been
ried forty-seven times without submitting the delay
Ing process of single divorce How in the name of all
that is logical could the Mormons have missed this in
teresng benedict? In Utah environment what he
might have done would dazzle the imagination of Turk
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-09

What has become of the municipal hue and cry
for the remodeling of that they may be
reasonably safe to the public and that in of them
shall lur the of widespreading death? Our play
houses unsafe they when authori-
ties voiced warning against them Have for
gotte1 the terrible lesson of the Iroquois?
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-09

EARTHQUAKES-A Readef. City.
The cause of earthquakes has never
been discovered F. w. Rudler. an emf
nent physicist. in an article contributed
to the Encyclopedia Britannica says:
Even at the present day, after all that
has been written on the subject, but
little is known as to the origin OF earth
quakes." Numerous theories have been
presented as to the origin OF the quakes.
but the prevailing opinion is that what
ever their origin. whether from one
cause or various causes, the vibrations
of every earthquake can be traced to a
focus within the earth. and that this
lies directly beneath the point of great
est disturbance.
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-09
Hns7Uers TO Oheries.

FOREIGNERS NOT wANTED-A
Subscriber. GeyservAle. Cal The Jap
anese Government has announced that
it will not enlist in its army or navy
any foreigners. The Japanese fear
the foreigners might be spies for the
enemy. The Russian has no desire to
enlist foreigners. having plenty OF ma
terial to fill the ranks OF both
branches Of the service.
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-09

Among the many luxuries suggested as desirable for
the Russian soldiers in the frozen fields of Man
churia none prominently mentioned than that
valued article of commerce. soap. What in the world
do the Cars soap for? Have they developed
an extraordinary eccentrcity in epicurean taste?
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-09

After all, the Albanian insurrection, that promised so
much of the spectacular in fanacal war, only fash
in the pan The fight is over, the Albanans paci-
fed and the Turk is TRUMP For sick man the
cynic of the Golden Horn has the readest recupera-
tive faculty of any fellow earth He strong in the
weakness of his neighbors.
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-09

A member of the House of Representatives whose
name fame has not yet seized with approval has un-
burdened himself of the opinion that the newly con-
sructed Office of the President i'll the White House is not
fit for second-cass lawyer. us hope
that it never will be-
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-09

You used to rave a pretty good
opinion of yourself
No since 1 accidentally overheard
somr of my dearest neighbors talking
me over. Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-09

ANSWERS-CaH Reader, Salinas.
Cal This department does not under
take to publish answers TO questions
on a particular day. Such are printed
as soon as space permits after they
have been secur d. Correspondents
who desire "a hurry answer" should
accompany the question with a self
addressed and stamped envelope and
request an early answer.
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-09

Townsend's California glace fruits and
candies. 50c a pound. in artistic Are
etched boxes A nice present for Eastern
friends. 715 Market ST.. above Call bldg