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The Lamar register., 1890-11-01
The pgARlno SEA DISPUTE.
Sir Julian Pauneefote Win Propose
Arbitration.

In recent interview the British
minister spoke of the settlement oi the
Behring Sea controversy as follows;
j shall renew to Mr.. Blaine my propo-
sition for arbitration, for that Ii the only
sure remedy for tho existing condition OF
affairs. Despite the fact thSt the articles
locking to this were not made on iast
ApriI when presented them. II speaks
well FOR Secretary Blaine and the people
OF the United States that no acts of hostil-
Ity were perpetrated during the sealing
season just closed There has however,
been changes in the negotiations since
Lord Salisbury submitted the proposition
for arbitration to Mr.. Blaine, TO which, by
the way, the latter mas vouchsafed no re-
ply. Still It is an important matter, and
/ presume the secretary OF state desires to
consider 1t very fully and in all its boar
iugs before making any Recommendation ..
"F'ron the commencement the object o.
negotiation has been the preservation OF
the fur seal species for the benefit Of man
kind, and no considerations Of advantage
to any particular nation, or of ecneht to
any private interests. should fall into ths
question. Hence. there is Erscat necessity
for u mixed commission OF two persons,
who should be allowed NJ least two ears
in which 10 make AZ investigation of this
question, and submit the result of faeir
finding to the governments a. speed .s
possible Pending the rcsul. Of such an
inquiry II Is Improbable that any apprceia-
tive dlminution Of the seal species would
take place. But In order 10 quiet all sp-
prehension on that score propose the fol-
lowing provision to the regulations:
'Fiut-Thai Pels.ie sealing be prohie-
tied in ihh Bshring sea, sea Of Oehotsx
and adjoining waters, during the months
Of October. November Aad December, the
migration periods Of the for seAl
"Second-All sealing vessels be prohiei
ted from approaching the breeding Islands
within radius OF ten miles.
The Lamar register., 1890-11-01
4 Banker in JAN for Contempt.

The trial at Fort Worth, Texas, OF
the case Of II. c. Edrington VS.. C. E
OduIn, for the recovery OF certain moneys
alleged to have been paid out by the PLAIN
tiG as secretary Of tae Contiaental Cattle
Company for attorneys fees, amounting
to about 5000, took "a sensational turn tie
other day when Judge Beekhan, of the
district court, sent Mr.. Edringtoa TO jan
fer contempt OF court
sir. Darlington is president OF the For,
Worth National Bank and an honored cit
izen of Fort Worth. The witnesses were
under a rule OF the court not n talk to each
other about the case, In the cl,,.rse Of the
case it was developed that Mr.. Burlington
had violated this rule. MIR. Edrington
says his counsel sent him 10 recall certain
witnesses for the purpose Of rebuttal,
when the witnesses asked Edrington for
what they were wanted, Burlington having
no thought OF violating the rules OF coart
told them for the purpose Of reoutting
certain evidence. The action OF the court
was great surprise to the legal iraterni-
ty. Judge Beekham's sentence is that
Mr.. Darlington be kept in confinement un-
til the Jury in the case returns verdict
The Lamar register., 1890-11-01

'.As THE suns spots remain for two
or three months on the average before
disappearance, we have been able"
says II. Clements, in the Newberry
House Magazine, "to determine the
time that the sun takes to revolve on
its axis. These spots travel from the
eastern to the western edge OF the sun
in such a way as to show that they
form part OF, and are really attached
to, the SUMS disc. The average time
taken by a great many has been found,
giving about twenty-five days as the
period taken by the sun in making one
revolution on its axis"
The Lamar register., 1890-11-01
vanderbilts Buy the Reading Road.

A special from Philadelphia says:
a belief that the vanderbilts have taken
an interest in the Reading railroad syndi-
cate organized year ago to control q
majority OF that company's stock was
quietly confirmed in New York yesterday,
when Il. B. Hollins signed the papers
making the transfer to his firm, H B.
HoAins Co, representing the Wander
oiltsl of the syndicate holding OF w. W.
Gibbs Of this city. The syndicate, which
was really hostile to Corbin, late pFcss-
dent of the road, but which was held Ia
check by the voting trustees, Apsi.s ss.va
bin, J. Wanamaker, j. L. H-e;. a,s r
Pierpont Morgan, obtained its 4.,,-f,-a, -
Reading stock at !. cost of aS@ -. ,hs,
ss,eeo,ooo and intssest al .,,r er,.t 70 ~.
present would lncreas.. ~ !. ,,-..t| y, = n.
coo. In August, rs IS. the syndicate agree
il-ens y. y .'i x. Long before then, the
. essnbers hope they viii be able
sa1s' esp's-A with the new Vanderbilt al
.,'nes an anchor, to raise the value Of
- ,1sldings SO as 10 c,Jse out at per
sntercst proat s'nd not speculative
-. elis- There Is 10 be no change in the
<rseading's present policy of extension aud
shat poiiry is more than likely to embrace
the erilding OF the abandoned South Pean-
sy.Ycnia railroad
The Lamar register., 1890-11-01

PREACHERS have been heard OF be-
fore now who had the faculty OF put
ting their hearers to sleep while ex-
pounding the gospel from the pulpit,
but n clergyman in Pennsylvania pre-
sents the singular phenomenon OF
preaching when he is sound asleep
himself. He is known as the sleeping
preacher, and while lying in deep
slumber on a bed he delivers an olo-
quent discourse OF which he remembers
nothing on awakening. There are
times, perhaps, when a sleepin g
preacher is not as desirable as wide-
awake preacher, but at least he ough t
to be rather popular with people who
like to tako a snooze during the
sermon without being seen by the
pastor.
The Lamar register., 1890-11-01

An English newspaper charged a
shire councillor with having ''tiddly-
winked the shire funds" The law
was invoked and, after consulting all
available dictionaries without finding
any definition of the term, the court
decided that the phrase was not neces-
sarily libelous. The game OF fiddle
winks, which is now in vogue in this
country, is one of skill. and nm expert
tiddle-winlzer must be gifted With
sleight OF hand. Financial tides
winl1ing is suggestive phrsse s.,,a !.
now introd aesd sor the. ss-..-s.
The Lamar register., 1890-11-01
Al the Rosebud Indian .oo

At the Rosebud Indian agency !,
mysterious Indian has announced himself
as being the expected savior and is max
ing medicine on the S akc river. He has
dispatched runners 10 o the agencies 10
urge the Indians to prepare for the great
change which is to take place when all the
whites shall be annihilated and the lands
restored to the original owners. Unless
the fakir is suppressed there will be
trouble. u IS probable thst scouts Will
,etart for the agency With detacamsn. D.
.roops from Fort Mckinney 10 few days
The Lamar register., 1890-11-01

...4..sss... ..l;sAs OF New York BIS be-
sSTr { lssh eater since he discovered
b seissetc law that he bad not pre-
yiaasiy be.r aware rt He changed
his mad upJu the diet question, aud
got convinced that meats were among
the proper eatibles for mankind after
he hs5 been assured by professor of
chemistry that beef, mutton and pork
were merely transformed grass. veg
etables and grain After pondering g
upon this interesting law of chemical
Transformation he came the conclusion
that vegetarianism is a doctrine oi
narrow scope.
The Lamar register., 1890-11-01


The comparatively high prices fixed
BY their owners on The best animals
shown at fairs are not "iancy," and
should not discourage any from at
tempting needed improvements of their
own stock The pure-bred stock in
many cases produces enough more
from the same feed to warrant II
large part OF the price demanded for
it. The rest is abundantly justified
by its ability to reprodj ice its valuable
characteristics in its progeny. 1t costs
comparatively little f5r any farmer to
gradsup his stock fih any desired di-
rection. and this will always pay.
,+hau his grades show the unexpected
70 CON ar,''i-'''-in to pay. 1t will
'ag ana aA,'r sip pur-
The Lamar register., 1890-11-01

A SCIENTIFIC paper says: The
Fiske position finder at Fort Hamilton
shows an error of less than one third
of l per cent in determining the dis
tance off of target of any well-estab-
llshed point in the lower bay" The
Fiske position finder ought to be
great thing for otiiceseelSers who as yet
have failed to find a position.
The Lamar register., 1890-11-01

A CANADIAN well-digger has been
sent to jail for pouring water down a
we'll which he was digging for farm
er on a contract which called for so
much money when water was struck.
If the unsophisticated fellow had only
poured the water into some corporation
stock it would have been much more
profitable swindle, besides being abso-
lutely safe-and honorable.
The Lamar register., 1890-11-01

The Sioux Indians who are looking
for an Indian Messiah are under the
leadership of an old medicine man
named Red Shirt, who is believed to
be over one hundred years old. He
gets his name from the fact that he
has always worn a red flannel shirt.
and his extreme old age is inferred
perhaps from the evident antiquity oil
that garment.
The Lamar register., 1890-11-01
Curious acciden, a, Providence

Au accident oOcurred Wednesday
aight on he Worcester divi.ioa OF the
New Yor@, f's1r idcnca asd Boston road
nesr tho araasa Avenue bridge at ,As
northern I4.si - sae city. ia which two
ueu were ail.lss Instantly klll - sad an
-s;Aes-,is rrsszbly fatally Islurca. a
freight ts4ia Ves ei;heF broken iE two or
was switching oct upon the Hain tracks
when Two cars csnno together With unus-
aai force. One OF these cars was loaded
with steel bridge girders and two Of them
were displaced and swiveled around iESt
as Lousdale train bound north came
lloug on the next track. One GirGcr first
struck tho side of the smoker, killing
Daniel McDermot; of Pawineket, who
WAS sitting by the window playing cards,
aud wounding Fred. Bennett, baggage
master at the Central Falls station, who
sat behind hin The biz beam rcbouuded
and struck the next car. day coach,
where y. g. Potbody, residence unkuo xn,
was killed The train was stoppcd with
one girder sticking throsgh the car roof
and another lying across It. The traia
was bat lightly icadej or aore would hayS
been killed.
The Lamar register., 1890-11-01
Honors to Count Won MoI.ke.

BERLIN, Oct. 25.-Nearly 10000
persons took part tonight in the torch
light procession which inauguratod the
celebration Of the ninetieth anniversary
4 the birth OF Field Marshal Count Won
Moltke. AL classes Of the people were
rsprsssrtsd. Tbs participants were ay.
Hltically grouped ~ prvmirept ssslptorD
spd psIBtefs.
The Lamar register., 1890-11-01

WHEN labor unions dissolve. they
will dissolve themselves. They VIII
live until their time OF usefulness Is
passed. and the interior sustaining
force has gone out of them. but they
will never be exterminated.
The Lamar register., 1890-11-01

A BALTIMORE preacher puzzled his
congregation the other Sunday by re-
marking without any further explanu-
ton that they reminded him of the
moon. Perhaps, with thoughts OF the
meager contribution box in his mind
he meant that like pale Luna at times
they appeared to be at their last quar-
The Lamar register., 1890-11-01

BISMARCK is an enormous eater. His
supper usually consists Of big Ham
burg steak, lot of Weiner sausaSes,
large dish OF sauerkraut, number
of Limburger sandwiches and plenty
of beer. At the close OF this light re-
past he might well say with Macbeth
II have supped full with horrors.
The Lamar register., 1890-11-01

A BUTCHER in San Francisco has
been arrested for selling sharks meat
under another name. lie Is hardy IS
bad, however, as the meat sharks VINO
are grinding the people with Dig
The Lamar register., 1890-11-01

NEARLr seven million pounds or
dates were imported lass year. Wha'
prodigies we would be If our memory
for dates were as good as our appetite
for ,em
The Lamar register., 1890-11-01
Denver Markets.

These prices are taken from the
bulletin Of the Denver Commission Mer-
chants Exchange, ard are the prices al
which the commission nea sell. Ten per
cent less than thess prices Is wha; The
farmer eaa rApect for his GODS.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-12-18
Railroads Employ Many Lawyers.


The general public has little idea of
the enormous sums annually paid out
by railroad in the settlement of dam
ages. Not one claim out of hundred
that is made against a railroad ever
reaches the courts. You may put it
down as a fact that when a suit is
brought it is only because q claimant
has made an unreasonable demand. A
large railroad has in its employ staff
of more than 100 lawyers. They are
distributed over the line, and, although
under salary, do not devote all of their
time to the service of the company.
AS soon as word reaches the general
Office that there has been a wreck and
that persons are injured, an attache of
the Office is sent to see each individual
injured. and, if necessary, compromise
the case. Many people are satisfied with
a guarantee of the doctors bills or
payment for the actual time lost from
work With our employees compro-
misses are easily effected. We general
ly pay all expenses of the treatment,
pay down certain sum, and then en-
ploy the injured man as a crossing
Waterman or in some such position
Interview in st. Louis Globe Demo
GRAFT
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-12-18
Scientific Study of Drugs,

But little is known of the action of
drugs on the human body in health.
For number of years an English bi
ologist, Mr.. w. Sharp, has been expert
menting to determine this action, using
different quantities of the same drug.
and he has reached some interesting
conclusions, Including the following
The smallest doses used in these e1per-
iments have power to act upon the liv
ing human body; the commonly re-
ceived opinion that the actions of drugs
are simply increased in degree and not
altered in character by increasing the
dose is an error; the actions of drugs
are sufficiently distinct to admit OF
classification. Traveller.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-12-18
Gloriou. College memories.

SOAACS0
9he conditions of student life In all
American universities and colleges have
shifted in a remarkable degree in the
last half century. The advancing
standard of scholarship, the broader
and more complex forms of intellectual
activity, linked with increasing social
claims, have compelled the attention
of thinking men to the problem of re-
tanning an equable balance between
the mental and physical powers. Ath-
letics for athletics sake would always
have existed as feature of college life
regardless of their higher value, but
when to the zeal and zest of their actual
enjoyment was added the conviction
that they were an absolute benefit,
physically and mentally, their position
as factor of student life became as
sured. Perhaps athletics in any given
degree became established in our col
leges as soon as that degree was ascer-
tanned. Certain it is that the old con-
ditions made no such demands as the
modern.
1t is these glints of color in the pict-
ure of college days thut stand forever
bright and steadfast when other out
lines become blurred and indistinct.
You do not remember whether Thorn
wright was valedictorian or net, but
you never can forget that glorious run
of his in the football game of 49,,
when, with his adversaries left behind,
he made the touchdown that gave your
college the championship and added
another silk flag to the trophy ROOM
Walter Camp in Outing.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-12-18
Dried Beef in New York.

There is nothing SO difficult to over
come as habit in the matter of food
There can be no more powerful illus
tration of this than the fact that In
New York city, where the best beef in
the world can be obtained, barrels Of
jerked beef-the ''tasajo" or sun dried
beef7of South America-are yearly sold
at a higher price than good. fresh meat
commands. This beef is purely a make
shift in tropic lands, where there is lit
tie or no ice, and there is no other al
tentative than to hang up the inca,
after an animal is killed and dry it in
the intense heat of the tropic sun. II
is rapidly cured by this process, but &C
quires the foul odor characteristic Of
such meat. This beef, however, wher
brought to our markets is eagerly
sought for by South American citizens
who prefer it to make their Ola podri
das.-New York Tribune.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-12-18
Ha. a Passion for Peddling CLANS.

must not neglect to mention the
has mania for peddling CLANS. He
is an old man in comfortable circum-
stances, with everything he could de-
sire, who cannot be content to let a
month slip by without Harvesting his
horse and starting out on a clam ped
ding expedition, going first to the
beach to get his load, then peddling
them about the country, taking several
days for the trip. 1t is not, perhaps,
a more remarkable form of insanity
than the passion for collecting old china
and bric-a-brac, but the mans age
must be taken into consideration.
One recent trip, however, very nearly
put an end at once to his mania and
his existence, for he took it into his
head to dispute the right of way with
an express train. His wagon stood
fairly across the track when the engine
whistled, only few feet away. The
whistle alarmed the horse, and with
one spring he cleared himself from the
wagon; but the old man hung on to
the reins and was dragged over the
dashboard and out of danger Just a
second before the train struck the
wagon and knocked it to pieces.
Astonished CLAIMS were scattered all
along the Housatonic railroad for a
week afterward, and the old man
limped home.-Connecticut Cor. New
York Times,
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-12-18
A Fish with Legs.

Axolotl, or fish with legs, is the name
Mexicans give to queer creature which
can swim like fish or run up smooth
wall like fly; can live and grow when
kept constantly in water like a true fish.
and yet can live and grow entirely away
from water excepting little to drink).
like true air breathing animal.
All this he can do because nature has
given him two sets of breathing power
He has gills, looking like branches of
soft coral, growing from each side Of
his thick neck, which enables him to
breathe in the water; and he has lungs
which, like those of sheep, or a SOUR
rel, or man, can breathe only in the
free, clear air of heaven. Either set
can be used as he pleases.
Fish are drowned when taken from
the water into the air, and animals
when put even for a short time under
water, but the axolotl cannot be drown
ed anywhere. Yet he is nowhere safe,
for the inhabitants Of the places where
he is found-Mexico, New Mexico and
Texas-think that his flesh is very good
to eat, and catch great numbers of the
a1olotl for food, which they cook in
various ways.-Exchange.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-12-18
Americans Arc Fond Of Silk Innings.

An English tailor who has great
vogue in New York tells me that in
nothing is there so much difference be-
tween his London and his New York
trade as in the matter of Innings. He
says royal customers on the other side
are not SO luxurious, do not use silk so
much in lining their gowns as does his
average American patron. Cotton,
linen and brilliantine are used in this
capacity by the SWEETEST London dress
makers, while one of any pretensions
here condescends to nothing more pie
beian than silk for any such purpose
Aside from the acknowledged tendency
of our women to extravaganza, this
particular taste is in measure gratifed
by the minimum weight of silk. We
cannot so well afford to carry heavy
gowns as the more robust English WON
on in her less exhaustive climate, and
our modistes are always devising plans
for tightening our gowns and wraps
for us, and the end is one to be greatly
desired. Review.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-12-18
Black Walnut.

Black walnut is rapidly becoming
exhausted, and there seems to be moth
ing in this country to take its place.
No other tree is SO valuable. It grows
rapidly, will thrive in any soil, and is
very hardy. requiring very little care,
because no animals and but one insect
feed upon it. 1t has a value but little
known, which is that the European or
French walnut" as it is called, grows
firmly on it, and is easily grated. It
can in that way be made to yield a
fortune if cultivated on a largo scale.
In twenty years it will more than pay
all expenses and interest, and III fifty
years the trees would be worth at least
$40. 900 an acre-New York Ledger.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-12-18
ON A BALCONY.

Moonlight and starlight meeting,
Silence and dew and dark:
Under the locust tang3es
Tho ire hy's pulsing spark
Your face was all In the shadow,
As we sat through tho hours apart;
could see nor smile nor frowntng-
Only-I saw your heart
Laid bare in the dusk and silence.
saw the record true
Did you know how deep you showed mo
There in the dusk and dewf
What leaves you turned before me,
Slowly as half in fear,
The blotted and blistered pages,
Where just ono word stood clear
Yet read their strange, Wild story
The cry of yearning pain,
The stress Of goading passions,
And the strong willis bitter strain;
And all the pure. sweet longings,
And the hope glimmering spark
Yet It shone far DER your future
Out Of the dow and dark
Lightly hear men name you
By the worlds daylight cold,
With a smile for tho half guessed follie4
With blame for the tale half told;
But see the flower of your knighthood
In stainless spiendor worn,
Bright as the crest Of Galahad,
Or the shield by LAuncelot borne;
For once, by the moon and starlight.
saw the soul In you
When you turned the blotted paeea
.heTc IN tho eafk and devil
Frank Leshe's Popular Monthly
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-12-18
An Innocent Little Thief.

Perhaps the most simply innocent Of
all rejoinders from unwilling culprits
was one made by little Kitty Lee. One
day she was found in the pantry. seat
ed on the floor. and holding a custard
pie in her lap. Alasl it had once been
a pie, but now nothing was left but the
crust. Kitty looked up, her lips
smeared with custard, ard smiled
serenely upon her discoverer.
mice custard pier quoth she.-
Youths Companion.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-12-18
The Editors Great Grief.

It is said of a one time editor of this
state, now { ,ad, that he learned of a
man in his town carrying eggs to bed
with him to hatch, and felt badly on
learning who it was, as he could not
make an item of it because they were
of the same political belief. The item
was so good that there was serious
thought of changing the politics Of the
paper in order to make comments upon
the originality of the man.-Belfast
Age,
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-12-18
He's Had Enough.

Russell Sage is quoted as saying Il
never lent a dollar which was returned
to me unless legally secured. l never
backed a note didn't have to pay and
/ never recommended a man for stu
alton who didn't turn out to be as
mean as he could. I now let other
men run the philanthropy business"
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-12-18
One Profession Safe.

First Worker (gloomily) Women arc
crowding into every department of in
dustry and lowering, our wages
Second WORKER amt afraid of 'em.
First Worker-You're not7 What
are you3
Second Worker A cook. New
York Weekly,
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-12-18
A Negroes Remark.

The phrase 81 acknowledge the coTn''
originated with slave in the south
He was charged with stealing corn
found in his possession. Having sack
with him he was also charged with
stealing that. His reply was: "No, sar.
I knowledge de corn, but l amt gwine
to knowledge to de sack. Detroit
Free Press