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desert the Kaiserbdnd. Conscious of objec-
tions which the Panslavists ignore, he
stands irresolute-the Hamlet of the situa-
ton.
But our correspondent vent to Cronstadt
and saw the Russian feet equipped for wal.
He heard the tone Of the naval command.
ers, who were itching for a fight. He
ed them with the English ships. And
there was an admiral who placed his fiuger
on a. chart. We shall meet them there"
he said.
As the result, then, of our correspondents
preliminary Investigations, it may be stat
ed that in st. Petersburg, as in Pekin,
there is a war party and a peace party
that M. de Giers heads the peace party and
M. PObedOnoseff the war party; that the
cOllnsels of NJ. de Giers prevail today and
that those of M. P~obedonospff prevail
tomorrow; that q word from Prince Bis
marck may give the victory to NJ. de Giers,
and an aggression OF General KomarOff
may give the victory to NJ. Pobedonoseff.
The sword hangs by q hair, and the
world can only watch the hands of the
clock and speculate upon the moment Of
its falling.
We are greatly gratiied by the popular
approval OF the course we have pursued
respecting the Central Asiatic question.
It is the business of a great journal like
the HERALD to have no sympatliies and no
antipathies, but to look upon current events
with the dispassionate eyes of a historical
critic. In dealing with this Eastern ques.
ton we simply relate the facts aS hey occur
and then explain them. If we believe
England to be in the wrong, We shall say
so; if we believe Russia to be in the wrong,
we shall say that. We are not in the
slightest degree affected by the Anglo,
phObia which always manifests itself when
England gets into difficulty and which is
the very natural outcome of The position
which the British government has more
than once taken toward this country
neither are we rendered partial in our
judgment OF Russia by any predictions
III favor of a people who gave rs their
warmest sympathy at u time when we were
going through the hot fires OF internal
diSsenSiOnS.
England and Russia are tightening their
belts for u terrible wrestling match. If
they shall once lay hands Oh each other
which God fOrbid-it will be no boys play,
but q battle of the Titans. The contend
ing armies will be about equally matched
i'll numbers and in logged courage, and in
ambition on the part Of officers and rank
and file for military renown. The conflict
is in every way to be deplored, but it is
rapidly approaching the verge of the
inevitable. AS the matter stands at this
moment Russia is practically demanding
the right of way to the sea, Il demand IN
which we believe her to be fully justified.
England is afraid to have her for q near
neighbor lest she SOW dissension among
her indian subjects, which she is more
than likely to do. That is the whole story
in a nutshell. England hesitates to fight.
but she must fight unless Russia %retires.
Russia peremptorily refuses to bulge, and
is making new encroaclments every day.
The difficulty may possibly be settled
without a resort to arms, but matters have
gone so far now that it is hardly probable
that it will be.
Der Nordstern. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1874-1931, 1885-12-16
Iubitpr fir iid bebalten tuerbe. 8

sluoitur fir fi9 bebalten tperbe. Die
Intuort Gautet, baB elm folder Mubitur
iotpobl crimineI tuie cipiliiiter CUR Rez
9enidaft se5osen uersen fam, ba bas
@eies bic 8e5abluns fir feline 9ienite
genau be9renst unb feline Summe fir
glert2obn etni6lieBt. Ser 2obn zines
iold.n @lerfs fei iiberbaupt an i'm iels
Der 81 5ablen. gluf cine tpeitere Sraae
|9elion's miro ertpibert, baB etu Sailor
ober @efansnibi9lieBer feinen @rias.
|matn anftelen fann, tpobl aber benz
|Sberif bas &e9t auftebt, einen iolden
au5uftelen.
4 @ontas Mursert sesen 5 ubr leste
Elm Brano, uelder nit GROCER Sefti9teit
NM fi6 sriff, bic Srame @ebalbe api
'iden benz Central Blod urs l. National
8ant 8lod in 8ismard in Gide. Gin
|@ebduoe i'm Bertb BON $4,000, geh5rte
8 Marib unb mar nidt seriidert;
Elm @ebaube i'm Bert6 bon 81, 400 ae.
bDrte s. $. &i1arbs urb ipar fiir $500
oerfi9ert. 8 8. S15nberg & 60. Der.
loren ibren S9ubz unb Stiefel.9 orratb
I'M Bertb bon $4,000; perfi1ert far
$3.50. Die gisarrenmader @bid
Bros. erlitten einen S1aben BON ettpa
$4,000 uno tuaren nur fir 5000 perz
.fi1ert.
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pon GbQs. g. @puo,

Sant Sapios, gentsn @ountp, ginue5ota.
8hraer ub Sreunbe in Gtearns gpuntni
eure p raamp 0ssrase , i@ gS =, ,n sg ssdrnds suno crude gn4, Mir peaefens etuen9b bril-
ie'aseH snsen Osfaahen t6nnen, Sd bin i'm aeFse zines fmmeni rp g Tr Ties q y usS T.
erIei Baaren ber IN
groeerls nno RrOoionen, guenpaaren, gotiuns, Shten, aappen. gduhen une
epHe'n, Nlel@raens, Fastappen ub Sear0den, Srbentuaaren, Referidbmieb.
t.a.s aaaIen aSn Der 9bat in irsenb elmer @a1e, bic Sbr aebrauGt)
0sp''' 0n o 70 0@% ~ a 3 t i% nn siassut hn i'm siaats IOsi6lasen perOs aua neb.
sdute s.a gslie' Ssas, @Oas, wdSpret Sinisns unO ssnet euatea arauter.
c.r nag tauHia 1T gu ier Belt. Sd min aue
frtfde Ctr ltn6 uirflib Qlte 8l1ffer. 6f in E1frrr
lge@no gsma9t uo. Sd made cine SpesiaItdt i'm ginfauf p,n
saaer' e, s, S Satsn, gdafpe5sn, gelssn, gsoae, Bi!apet, eeueta
HO @talena gsnrjtln., Sd bsaable iebt 20 gents
tr ern SuBens frH9er Gier, nnb bon
~ 1910 tr Elm guseno Saianen, ben Wartpreis fin in s5pe tuoenobteguner.
e. asn Ir s gnatS 49, Hs 175 per Riunb faaginiens. unb so bis IS da. pr igfuns fa
~ aM ffysssno pabrsno beir Seisn dotalb bas sseHer fdMer mirDJ IN gMIadbr
Sers D snnS i du is mn en- li9tertf Serr gbas u. aeask. fraber in Sienfeu 6s
Gudtung Sr DSA' ~ NY "a sgp IN pesoH'oe "@ III
:" S""l' 'up""' 0emoH county, Mnn. Gbas. u. &ea8le, gerfxRr.
Der Nordstern. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1874-1931, 1885-12-16
DerfonaI= etenerh.

Sn na9tebenber Isabelle besinnen
mir BAG Namensperaei6niB iener @teu,
eraabler in ben einaelneu Topns oes
Gsuntps, oeren Steuerbetraa bic Gum,
me psu $500 betrdst ooer iberiteist.
NIhouS
Der Nordstern. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1874-1931, 1885-12-16

gG6F Infer gorratb BON Spiben.
tpaaren, iotuie ardsen, rSii9ue", 8als=
tideru TT gang p~ollitdnbis, unb 5sier,
ta9s.ginfdufer Deroen lire @infdufe Bel
uns our pol1en 8ufriebenbeit MAIDEN. 63
iSanbel & NuQent.
Der Nordstern. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1874-1931, 1885-12-16

~ Sofepb Gbelbrpd fest
INNER nod ben Ausperfauf BON
ferttsen 6letbern fort. Des<
gletden itnb tn feinem 2ofale
ptele fur neutrality-suspicious. se>
eisnete NOpelties pprrdtbta.
.@etn gDrratb an &afee nmb
Sbee TT Der bette unb Der frifa
''ite I'm Rarste.
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gaS- Der srDBte 8orratb an Sober.
nno @AnmisSfiemen, 8anbleoer une
ailes aur 9ampfmai9ine @eb6rtae
certdufen bel Gebriiber @~DienberQer.
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rs aauft euren 9bee unb &afe.
BET WobertfOn unb Slim. Der ysRsfFe.
9e9eniiber.
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1as Neue acknowledgements ii
v 9 o. M. Glarf&4 8 Us S~upenen.
Ishtk 90
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ss 0ie sr6Bte unb bette Gustpabl
BON 3uder>. uno 8admerfen fir Die Sci
in Der Gitps8dderei BON &arl
adrmer.
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[EB @tne ppafdnbt9e Ser
abfebuns in unferm gQenmaa<
n>Oepartement. &leiber3eug
BON 5 Gents aufwdrts per garb,
bcYpelter Wertt bes @eltes.
Sprtdt sDr unb beitdttst bic
0aare. So nirb itd lpbnen.
10 DuBenb gan, wpqene Stram>
pfc su Is Gents bas Daar, wertb
50 Gents. Die aiebrtsifen pret<.
ie bet SEP. Sc r.
~ nnieren sanaen 8orratb an
&leioerftofen gu n%iebrtseren greiien tpie
nod ie perfauft ipurben.
5anbel& sc urgent.
- Nprtb.Sta Sals< no2unaenbaIiam,
Elm iideres Rittel sesen Spften II. GrtdItuns.
1dSr Janoel u. Nusent baben cine
iebr f66ne Guspabl BON Sanb semaa-
ten Grtiteln fir BITE Seiertase.
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H65@ Gin eleaanter, 1euer 8orrath
bon Silberuaaren ioeben erbalten in
|@eo. 81. Chart & EOS Snuelen.
laSeu. So
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-11-21
Wasps ON the War Path.
New York Herald.

A wasp's nest was discovered in a
country church recently. After q little
while the wasps were discovered also.
The minister was proceeding leisurely TO
"ffthly" when the wasps concluded they
had better attend to business and begin
missionary work among the conpreos-
ton. They sailed forth in twos and
Ihrees for the sake of mutual reinforce-
ment, and it is safe to say that some
expressions were made use of during the
next half hour which would not stand
the test OF the strictest piety. Bald
heads were especially at q discount, and
when an enthusiastic wasp lighted there
on and proceeded to the performances of
duty the staccato tones of sudden anguish
broke on the still and solemn air and a
horny hand hit the bald spot as though
it would knock the while head off. For
q little while there was something like
regular camp meeting revival in that
building. Moody and Sankey's songs
we're nowhere. There were hysteric
shouts and wild hurrying to and fro and
dancing up and down the aisles. until
the minister shouted, in the language of
the Mikado. Here's q pretty how We do
Just then . wasp made his personal &C.
quaintance, and he immediately shut
the Bible and made . remark. Il Is
proven beyond . doubt that religion.
though fitting every other emergency in
life, 10 entirely inadeIuate when wasp
applies his business end 10 the human
epidermis.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-11-21
TO IMPROVE THEIR COmPLExroxs

Two Florence Ladies' Eat Arsenic and
Narrowly Escape Death.
From gentleman who came from
Florence yesterday, it was learned that
two ladies nearly came to their death
from an ambition to become beautiful
in the manner which rumor SAYS Mrs.
Walkup adopted. They are q young
married lady, and young school teach
or. Having read in the newspapers that
Mrs. Walkup is very beautiful woman.
and that she enhanced her beauty by
eating arsenic, they determined to trv
the effect of that poison upon their own
compilations, and visiting drug store.
asked for some arsenic. Our informant
says that the story is that the druooist
placed the bottle containing the poison
on the counter in front Of them. and
then went away to wait upon another
customer, and that during his absence.
they each took quantity from the bot
tie and ate it. TIE newspaper which
they read had failed to state how much
should be taken at q dose. and thew
didn't know, 80 they took what thew
thought would be sufficient. They were
made violently sick and physician was
called. who, upon learning what had oc.
Cured, administered an emetic. with
satisfactory results. Tie ladies are now
in fair way to complete recovery, and
will not again attempt to improve their
compilations by the use Of arsenic.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-11-21

by al roads reporting to this Office for
the year ending June 30, 1884, was So
494 62867; for the year ending June 80,
1855. the total amount of dividends paid
wac $6,7l4, 9l5.7 II; amount paid in 1886
less than in 1884, $2.779,7l2e6. The
total amount of stock represented by all
:, ilroads in this report is $262, $40, 1855.
M M. ibuting the amount of dividends
.,a LEI :. all stock, and the average Is 2.b6
per cent 1g to the delay in forward
ing the report Q. HE to include the
"a road, we are tnA in this review.
operations of that r6s.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-11-21
DOWN ON THE JERIoA

Bob Bardette Delivers Iletle Ho.V
Fast Young Man.
So you have got yourself into q Il. o'
have you? Yes, well, that means you
know that you have gone clear wrong,
because there is only one kind of right
and one kind of wrong; there's no mug
wumpery in morals, my boy. And
you've had such q hard time getting
back that its made you a little bitter
and cynical, and you think all the world
is rather hard and selfish and pitiless,
and especially severe on you? Well, /
wouldn't feel that way at all, if l were
you. don't think ever did feel that
way, and l know more about 1t than you
do. I've been further down on the
Jerico road than you. Went down there
to let my beard grow. Great town for
toots, from away back. It's bad country.
Never heard of but one good woman in
Jericho, and she didn't move in good So
ciety. But, my son, it isn't eociety's
fault that you got into trouble. You
know what the Jerico road was before
you went down that way. You know
there was q curse on the town. You
were cafe enough in Jerusalem; why
didn't You stay there? Don't feel bitterly
toward all the world because you feel
among thieves and got cleaned out. 1t
is kind, good natured, forgiving old
world, if you give it a chance to be for
giving. True,i doesn't always look that
way to a fellow in trouble, because then |
the fellow is apt to look at the wrong |
people. You found on the Jericho roadi
say six or eight thieves-that is, half q
dozen professionals and the two amateurs
who passed by on the other side-and
only one Samaritan, and naturally it
seems to you that the leaven of good is
utterly lost in the great mass of rascality
and hypocrisy, but bless you, my son, in
the great, honest. living world, in the
world that is trying to do right and try
ing to lead men to better things than
Jericho excursions, in the only world that
really loves and cares for justsuc young
fellows as you, in the real world OF men
and women who deal with the young
man all the more gently when his smart
ing wounds are deepest, the one good
outweighs regiment of these
villains who best you, and robbed you,
and passed you by on the road to Jericho.
Never mind the priest and the Levite,
my son. They were going down to Jer-
icho, too, you remember, that's the kind
of priests they were. And one closing
word, my son. Unless you are smarter
and stronger than the thieves down Jer-
icho way-and I guess may be you are
not; very few men are-why, you keep
off that road. You stay in Jerusalem,
and you'll have more money and less
headache.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-11-21
He Wants the Earth

Detroit Journal.
"Let the gods have the heavens, but
let us have the EARTH" he (Col. Rober,
IngersolD exclaimed. Those who have
long maintained that the famous infdel
wanted the earth, will now feel that they
have not lived altogether in vain. The
Colonel's generosity in giving up the
heavens may be in part accounted for by
the fact that his interests up that way
are supposed to be pretty heavily en-
numbered with mortgages anyhow.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-11-21

Ellsworth Reporter: Last Sunday morn
ing as w. A. Sternberg was driving lot
of cattle from this city to his ranch
southeast of town, the cattle stampeded
at point one mile east of here, where
the public road and railroad run side by
side, at a curve in the road bed of the
railway. The train from the east came
around the curve and ran into the cattle
before the engineer had time to check
the train. Th1rty-forr head of cattle
were so badly crippled that it was neces-
essary to kill them. Charles Chapman
engineer. Mr.. Bacon fireman, Ike Iron
conductor, and an old engineer from the
east, were on the engine which was
thrown from the track and the engineer
and fireman badly injured; the other
two escaped without being injured, but
it was a narrow escape from instant
death for all of them. A number of cars
were smashed up and the damage will
amount to considerable.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-11-21
One of the Vanderbilts,
Chicago Herald.

chicago deTalG.
IL was much amused the other day, .
said an intimate friend of the Wander.
bilt family, at the Grand Pacific, "to see
that account in the newspapers of how
young Cornelius Vanderbilt went into
Wall street, lost S., 100000, and how his
father had to come to his rescue and pen.
sion him off On promise to never do 80
any more. 1 thought newspapers were
better informed than that. It was not
Cornelius at all, but William K, of whom
that story is told, though there is not
much more truth in it as applied to him.
1 don't believe Cornelius Vanderbilt
ever bought any stocks for speculation
in his life. His grandfather left him $5,-
DOC, 600, and that has been doubled since
by natural accretion. His father gave
him his magnificent house. I don't be-
lieve the world knows it but that branch
of the Vanderbilt family aims to be a
philanthropist. There is no man in
New York, perhaps, who distributes 80
much money in quiet and unostenta-
tious charity as Cornelius Vanderbilt.
He and his wife are levout church peo-
he is becoming little cranky on relig-
lOuo uoIC0I6 LILO lAtCuuo oOm0 uhy W
become second Peabody, and it would
not be a surprise to find him any day en-.
downing some theological seminary, char
itv hospital, free college or something
He probably distributes 100000 a year
in small charities, and already employs
disbursing agent by the year to see
that his benefactons are not misplaced;
the agent is an old Chicago Newspaper
man, Fred Cooke, who used to be city
editor on the Telegraph here. Cooke has
gone wild on spiritualism, but he, too, is
q crank on charity matters and is devot-
ing his life to that work. Vanderbilt
pays him $4,000 year to devote his
whole time to the disbursement of the
sums he donates. It is q trustworthy
place, for the young millionaire never
asks him what becomes of his money.
He exacts of Cooke only judicious dis
bursement and silence IS to the source
of supply,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-11-21

Centralia Journal: Qpite q number Of
peoplewho have not seen it seem to
doubt that we had squash at the Cen.
tralia fair that weighed one hundred
and seventy-seven pounds, but it is q
fact. 1t was raised by Mr.. Cline seven
miles southeast of here and it is now on
exhibition in this city.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-11-21

An Augusta, Me-, lady troubled with
obesity is reducing her weightby walk
ing to Hsllowel and return every pleas
ant day and occasionally to Gardiner.
She has taken off eight pounds in tw
weeks.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-11-21

but covered entirely with thin lenticular
fragments of hematjte from the nodules
of that material which some layers of
the shale contain in abundance. In
places the decomposing nodules give
q brown hue to several acres of slope,
and aut hills here are of the same color.
In short, we find the ants arc some
what like ourselves. They root their
houses with the most available material
coal hsmatite, quartz or glass beads,
even as men use clapboards, shingles,
states or tiles.
In looking at the hills it always ap.
pears that we can easily gather q hand
full of the roofing material, but when we
try, it is not 80. It needs some little
force to detach the particles. They are,
indeed, roof; they shed the water 80 as
to nrevent the softer material of the
building below from being washed
away, and we still think that the bright
est materials within reach are selected
from some relation to the distribution OF
heat.
The annual meeting of the academy
ended by the adjournment at half past
8 o'clock p: m. As we intimated in the
beginning, the full programme could
not be carried out, number of the
papers being only read by title. In
many respects this reunion has been the
most interesting yet held. In the mat.
ter of breadth of scientific research, as
indicated by the papers presented, it
far exceeded its predecessors.
The next meeting will be held in EN-
poria, beginning about the second Wed
nesday of November, 1885.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-11-21
REHABILITATION.

The total tonnage reported at this Of
ice by the railroad companies operating
in Kansas, for the year ending June 80,
1885, is 2,7S9, 314 ,544 hauled one mile; the
amount ofthe tonnage for the year end
ing June 80, 1884, was 1852, 644, 551: in
crease in 1885 over the year 1884, 1O6,.
669, 1893 tons.
The freight earnings for 1884 were s44,-
183, O29.01; for the year 1885 the total
freight earnings were $4,000, 275.75-
showing q decrease for 1885 compared
with the year 1884, Notwithstanding the
largelyincreased freight tonnage for 1885,
of s., 131, 1882.
The total amount of dividends paid
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-11-21

The Board has no report covering the
last two months; the management
changed hands April 80. last.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-11-21

RAILROAD COMMIsSIONERS REPORT
The railroad commissioners of thu
state have made their annual report tt
the governor. We copy it nearly entire
FINANCIAL REVIEW FOR THE YEAR ENDING
JUNE 80, 1885.
During the past ear there has been q
general falling off of railroad revenue OF
earnings, although the traffic returns
show q very considerable increase in the
volume of freight hauled. The reduced
cSsifs for the leading lines operating in
this state did not 60 into effect until E We
days prior to the close of the fiscal year
appears for the first time in the reports
Of the year ending June 80, 1885. twill
be both instructive and interesting to
direct special attention to the result in
this report, especially so since it is not
uncommon to hear it quite confidently
asserted that no reductions have been
effected in railroad freight rates since
the estat fishing Of this commission.
The number of miles of railroad re-
ported to this Office, with their traffic,
earnings. etc, is 9,371.46, of which
4,l02.97 miles are within the state of
Kansas. The agp egate of reductions
hereafter noted do not all apply to Kan
sas traffic, but the people of this state get
their full proportion of the benefits ac-
cruing from reduced tariff.
The Atchison, Topeka q Santa Fe
company reports ,S67 81 mie2, 89l.9 go of
which are operated within the state.
The freight traffic done over this mileage
is represented by the number of tons
hauled one mile, viz:
Number of tons haulei one mic for the
sy year ena 10 June 30 1855 $685. $40
year ending June 80, 6Is, o7s
increase In tonnage. ...... 81, go 29S
Amount of freight earnings for the
year ending June 30, 1885. ........$ 1853 767 81
Freight earnings for the year before 1o.ls5.sOj 80
Decrease of freight earnings past
year compared with 1894. ...-....S 427,033 26
1t will be seen from the above, that
althougfthe volume of freight traffic in
creased nearly thirty-seyen millions of
tons hauled one mile, the revenue de-
rived from it was less by $42l ,O33. &c.
Applying the tariff of 1884 TO the freight
traffic OF 1886, and the earnings would
have amounted to the sum of $1lO37,-l
46l.l6 or 81 ,268, 693 81 in excess of the
earnings actually received under the
present tariff; and this last sum repre- !
sentst he aggregate amount saved to the
people upon one years business upon
the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe rail-
road.
a yerage rate per mile per ton ofthrough |,
1relght Tor 1884 OF 80 cts
Average rate on local OF II cts
heee per ton per mile for through freight
IoI .01. Sc cts