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settling the Behring Sea di1H
the same manner. s S {:
Other countries, however, ohoz
intention Of laying aside the ~
for the legal argument. It ma1
well enough for kindred c0untfioq
in cases where the disparity Of ~
is so great as to make war ridtculo
But between blood enemies It
no favor. Germany faces her axuz
toward the French and HUI
frontiers; Austria Hungary watc6c1
for the Cossack camp fires; Ff1neo
snarls at England's stay In EUp&
and all the powers are ready to ~ a.
one another's throats as soon q 500
accident shall start q fight In nv
quarter. There Is no thought a.
arbitration, and apparently noth1nG
to arbitrate. q
Possibly after the next great CO..
flict the other powers will see the Cd
vantages of settling their dihereucoe'
peaceably, but it does not look -
though they would come to that m1nd
until they have experienced again the
full disadvantages Of war.
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But where's the Quarterf


did you ever try stamping coin
with your name and sending it out
on its Journey" said Bourke Lenori1,
of Montreal. -Four years ago / did
that. / stamped quarter while In
New York City and passed 1t tho
same day for basket of grapoe.
Three days later I left the city. I
went direct to Mount Clemens.
Mich, from New York and put up
at the Avery House. I hadn't been
there two days before friend OF
mine. and q commercial tourist
came to the same house and took
rooms. l was sitting out on the
piazza listening to the music that
they have every evening, when he
came up and said:
I've got something here that be.
longs to you, Leonard
What's that?' I asked.
when did you stamp this quar-
ter?'
Not over four days ago. I said,
rising up in surprise. He held it out
to me, and, sure enough, there was
my coin. He had been in New York
at the same time, and had received
it in change from saloon on the
Bowery. Well, that was once. That
same quarter came to me year later
while I was stopping at the Alex
ander House. A drummer friend of
mine had picked it up in Kansas
City, and had held it for me. /
turned that quarter loose again upon
the market, and within six months I
had it again, brought, Of course, to
me by a friend of mine who had
taken it in change from some hotel
clerk down in Indiana. Well, took
it up and passed it again. From that
time on until now 1 have never seen
it, but there is no telling. I expect
to run across it shortly. A friend Of
mine stamped his name on. one six
years ago and sent it out, but it
failed to return. Must have been
taken up by bank and sent to the
Treasury. / don't think it would go
that long without coming back. It's
interesting If nothing else. You
want to try it.
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He Had q Limit.

The dude was visiting the peniten.
tiary. accompanied by an Official an
a newspaper man, and the party wen
talking to one of the prisoners
Have cigarette?" said the du66
as they were about to depart. 0ferir
him package.
much obliged" responded t.
prisoner shaking his head. ~I've6ed
bosses, and robbed chicken roc s;
and broke into houses, and killed =
man or two, and had four or ~
wives, and made counterfeit MOI s
but I never smoked cigarettes, -
heaven helpin' me, / never WIN
long," and the cell door weet 70 = =
a bang as pronounced a. the ono<
dude wore in his hair. g
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For Peace or War.

The growth of international arbi-
tratiOn has not been as rapid as the
friends Of peace were at one time led
to hope. In spite Of arguments and
practical examples the United States
and Great Britain are almost alone in
their adhesion to the principle The
other nations still hold to the stern
and tested policy Of getting what
they can by individual bargaining,
and fighting when they cannot agree.
The advantages of arbitration are
easy to be understood. To say moth
ing Of avoiding the slaughter Of good,
productive citizens, the financial ad-
vantages are almost wholly on the
side of peace. Napoleon was mas
ter hand at robbery and believed full
~ in the maxim of living of the
enemy, yet in spite Of all the money
raised by taxation in France and the
countries appropriated by France the
debt had increased from ia, 900, 900
francs to ], 272, 900, 900 francs at the
end of the fifteen years of Napoleon's
government. This was, to be sure, a
small increase, considering the fight
ing that was done, but when even the
ruthless policy of Napoleon could not
make war at the expense of the con-
quered no other may hope to be sue
cessful. Germany came nearest to it
by collecting 5000, 900, 900 francs of
France and taking Alsace and Lor-
raine as the prize Of the war Of 1870,
but the cost of the war in money and
the still greater expense it has en-
tailed in the enormous military es-
Enlistment necessary to hold the
provinces have made it dear bar
gain.
The expenses of a war are great.
In most cases the return is nothing.
The combatants become exhausted,
and after spending their blood and
money come to a more or less friend
ly agreement and settle their differ
ences on terms that might have been
had without fighting.
When the United States and Great
Britain came near going to war over
the Alabama claims the whole amount
in dispute was 500, O0O, 900. II they
had fought the whole amount in dis
pute would have been spent in mill
tary preparations before blow was
struck and both sides would have
spent ten times that amount year
till the war closed. Arbitration In
that case saved hundreds of millions
of dollars and thousands Of lives to
each side, and the result was hon.
orable II not satisfactory to both
sideA 1t is true that England felt
sore that the award went against her
not for the SIS. 500, 600, for she
would have willingly spent hum
drcd times that amount In defending
her dignity, but for the fact that she
Was declared to be In the wrong. But
Whafever dioappointment Was felt
~ ouunfkjoo hn0e 1oqnd the 10
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-12-17
Famous Country Boys.

Nearly three-fourths of the men OF
the United States who have become
famous were the sons Of farmers and
spent a portion of their lives on a
farm. For example: Lincoln, Grant,
Garfield. Hamlin, Greedy, Tilden,
Cleveland, Harrison. HAYES, Blaine
and many others almost equally con-
spicuous in current events or living
memory. W. H. Vanderbilt was born
in 4 small New jersey town. Russell
Sage was born in b New York Village.
Jay Gould spent his early years on his
fathers farm in New York State.
Whittier and Lowell spent their youth
IN villages the former spending nis
time between farm employment ana
his atudieA
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LITTLE wArERED srocKTHERE


One II the Numerous Good Points About
Railroads in England.
The English railroads were far
more expensive to build than ours
They had to pay for the land-and
land is valuable in England; and the
cost Of depots, etc, was much higher
than here, where all the land Is given
free and often a bonus In the way Of
city and county bonds for the location
Of machine shops, etc. When it is
considered that the English roads
cost so much more and get none of
this assistance, one would think that
it was far more difllcult to pay divi-
dends on the stock there than here,
but the New Orleans Times Demo
crat says this does not seem to be the
case. A parliamentary inquiry con-
Quoted by the British Labor Commits
sion into the English railroads, and
more particularly into the wages paid
employees, shows condition of affairs
highly creditable to them. The
amount Of money invested in rail-
roads is "a, 485, 900, 900, and author
lied capital IS, 600, 600, 900. It is
here that the defects in our railroad
system become apparent. The laws
creating the British railroads keep
their capital down very close to the
actual cost; whereas, here the stock
IS watered time and time again, I'M
til often the capital of the company
represents barely 10 per cent. Of the
money expended. water" is the
reason why so many American rail-
roads default in the payment of their
dividends. The gross receipts per
annum Of the English roads are ESQ, :
600, ZOO; but the working expenses
reduce this by more than one-half,
and the net earnings amount to s43, :
600, 1000 annually. The English roads,
therefore, pay average dividends of
5 per cent. q 8 per cent, to be exact),
which is far above what our roads do.
Another point inquired into by the
commission it was the matter
most investigated by twas in re-
gard to wages. The evidence SUBJ
mitted showed that the number of
men employed by the English COM
panies is in the neighborhood of $780,
600. This is much larger number
in proportion to mileage than are en-
ployed in this country, and proves
that the British roads are better
equipped-one of the reasons why
there are fewer accidents there than
here. 1t was also shown that the
men had fully shared in the prosper
ity of the companies, and that their
pay had increased more rapidly in the
last eight years than the gross re-
ceipts, the improvement in wages be-
ing 81 per cent, and in railroad bust
ness only IL per cent, and that
there had been at the same time a
material reduction in the hours Of
labor.
We boast a great deal about our
railroads, and we undoubtedly lead
the world in mileage; but it would be
well to remember some of the facts
brought out by this British commits
sion: That we have too many acct
dents and kill too many people; that
we do not pay as good dividends as
the English lines, which cost great
deal more, and that American en-
plOyes do not share in the increased
prosperity of the roads as fully as
they do in England.
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THERE is 9 pretty general g.
sus of opinion that Lady CIV r
has been making . mounfain 9
molehill in her pictures e
fashionable life. When =
starts In to ind fault = = =
deplorer II may eenorally -
that unleos do hoD&
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had developed in him . stern self-re-
preston.
One evening after an hours solitary
reflection on the situation, he sat
down and wrote:
He enclosed the paper in an en-
velope, sealed it, and wrote across the
back, Compact with myself, to be
kept until Oct 16, 1890"
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to a man who cared nothing for her.
Eric I may have loved you once. but
I love you no longer. I have out
grown my weakness. But we can be
friends STILL"
without a word he turned and
left her.
And so these kindred spirits, mis-.
guided, the one by suspicion the other
by pride, went separate ways.
Went separate ways, but not for a
lifetime. Two years later they met
in a scene of death and disaster.
There had been frightful railway
accident Passenger cars were heaped
up at the foot of a superintendent
The engines red, angry eye glared
through the soarlit gloom upon the
men and women struggling amid the
wreck, and crying helplessly over
their dead.
Clara was among the uuiniured.
She had not been even stunned, and
now felt marvellously clear-headed as
she walked around trying to infuse
courage into the panic-stricken. Sud-
denly she came upon Eric Fleming.
His face showed white and death-like
by the light of that pitiless red eye
He was pinned down in the wreck so
that he could not move a muscle
I'VE are both here, it seems" he
said with weak smile. as she stop
ped before him.
s.And one Of Us is a prisoner, she
rejoined in a cheerful tone, though
her heart was heavy. ssCan you not
move 1t alle"
mo / think my am = hrolpan.
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NCdlCu w uCISClis duu UuC ICfCloUlOu
had been a shock. He had said 'com-
radship" and she had accepted the
compact He had been fair enough.
But she-she had failed to guard her.
self against giving an unsought love,
and was now face to face with con-
fusion. Yes now she understood his
peculiar manner towards her. He
had detected her liking and was try
ing to prevent its growth.
With a tempest in her breast, Clara
moved round mechanically among the
white figures which still seemed IN
stinct with the grand passions of long
ago The strong lines around her
mouth were hardening. She got out
of the building as quickly as possible.
She did not want to encounter Mrs.
Mansfield.
1t was three months later. Eric
was again sitting in his room, study
ing Clara's face in the pink radiance.
He was trying to fathom the SUBJ
tie change which had. overtaken her.
While continuing the easy conditions
of friendship, she had managed to put
an infinite distance between them.
She did not seem lovable, as once. A
certain hardness In speech and man
uer frequently Jared upon him. But
this hardness melted into Reniality,
he could see, when she talked with
Henry Nash or Fred Roberts With
them and Others she was smiling, ra-
dlant.
He could not know her struggle.
She was stamping out her love slowly
but surely, with al the strength Of
her proud nature, and ct tho same
I - Striving to save heroelf NON
: hltteI q tL1e - sllll1
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-09-26
TRYING TO GET WINNER
Missouri's Governor Asked for
His Extradition.
HE WAS INDICTED IN PHILADELPHIA.

One of His Victims was millionaire Mo
Cammant of Pottstown, Pa, who Sc
cured the Indictment History of the
speculator who Was at the Head of the
"Winnar Investment Co."
PoTTsTowN, Pa, Sep 26-Willard
E. Winner, the Kansas City speculator,
whose meteoric flight through the finan-
cial sky quite blinded even conservative
moneyed men by its false brilliancy, and
in whose stupendous Kansas City pro-
jects millions of dollars, drainSd from ali
America, were swiftly sunk, may before
many days answer in Pennsylvania
court of justice to an Indictment charg-
ing him with the procurement of money
under false pretenses.
An agent Of this State awaits now in
the Office of the Governor of Missouri the
pleasure of the Executive, who has under
consideration an application from the
Governor Of Pennsylvania for the extra
dition Of Winner, who is now a resident
of St. Louis. In January last, at the
Court of Quarter Sessions in Philadelphia,
an Indictment against Winner was OBJ
tanned at the instance of James B. Nc
Cammant, the millionaire of this city,
who charged that Winner had procured
$l2, 600 from him by false pretenses two
or three years ago
Ten years ago Winner was a clerk in
the postoflice in Kansas City Beginning
with modest investments, his capital in q.
creased rapidly until in few years he
stepped into place of wealth and power,
From the enterprises of the Winner In-
vestment Company there branohed out
related schemes of which he was the
guiding spirit, the aggregate capitaliza-
tiOn of which reached millions of dollars.
There was the Winner Bridge Company,
and the Chicago, Kansas & Texas Rail-
way Company the natural sequence Of
tine bridge project
In these two schemes alone millions of
dollars of Eastern money now lie dorm
ant. Then there was the Winner Build
ing Company which bought nearly block
of ground in the centre of the city and
began the construction of a large office
building, the Winner Improvement Co., ,
the Winner This and the Winner That.
All, with their separate capitalization ex-
pressed in many successive ciphers, owed
their several eXistenCes to the finanCier's s
| brain.
Into one Of these enterprises Millionaire
McCammant put Sl2, 000 Two or more
years ago came the crash, and all the as
| sociated Winner enterprises collapsed.
| Winner left Kansas City and is now en-
gagged in the railroad business in ST.
Louis. Mr. McCammant made an inves-
! tigation aud secured the Indictment last
January
The delay in issuing requisition papers
| is due to Winners promise to Governor
Francis that he would appear in Philadel-
| phia at the next term of court voluntar-
| lily. But Winner did not go, and now
his eNtradition is formally demanded.
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TROOPS 10 TIE FRONT.
Caracas Deserted of soldiers-ForeinE
Loans from Merehants


PANAMA, Sep. 26 News has been re-
ceived from Caracas to the effect that
Senior Diaz has resigned the governorship
Of federal districts and DR.. Lander has
been appointed in his place.
The government is forcing from the
merchants loan of So, 600 a day
Villegas- Pulida had not up TO Sept 13
been recognized by the foreign Ministers
Rs legally President of the Republic.
All the troops have left the city for
the front. The Commandacia Quartet
has been closed, only a guard of 40 sol
diers being left there.
Renjilro Palacio, Governor Of La Quay
ra, it IS claimed, opens all the foreign
mails and is exercising a virtual dicJa-
torship in local affairs. He has grossly
insulted the American Consul and threat
ened 80 revoke his exequatOr
In the waste about the Custom House
which was being removed there were
found 1000 letters to local merchants
which have been rihed, it is thought, by
Mendoza and Renjilro.
Minister Scruggs made a vigorous pro
test against the seizure of the passengers
on the steamer Caracas at Puerto Cabel-
10. He demanded that they be returned
to the deck of the steamer, to salute the
flag and to give personal damages.
The Foreign Minister made an evasive
reply, and to Mr. Scruggs' second demand
made no answer. Since then he has had
no relations with the government.
1t is unknown in Caracas where the
prisoners are. Ardaneta had consigned
them in the Castillo at Puerto Cabello,
which Mora afterward captured. 1t is
thought the imprisoned men have been
removed to MaracaiDo.
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California; Eruit CuItnre.

LONDON, Sep. 26.-There is a lively
correspondence in the London Chimes"
based on an anonymous letter, denounc-
ing as a fraud the effort to allure British
capital to California by advertising the
advantage to be gained by fruit farming
in that State. Mr.. Henry c. Campbell of
California and Mr.. Charles W. Greene of
New York and others have defended the
business of fruit farming in California
with great spirit and urgent argument
They point to the continuous increase of
the fruit raising area and the extensive
Investment of American capital as the
best evidence Ot good faith iu appealing
for British capital.
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TIE DEATH oF WlcKEs.


His Friends in New York Greatly Shocked
over the Report from Detroit.
New YoRK, Sep. 26.-Friends of Mr.
Wickes in this city are greatly shocked at
the manner of his death as reported in
the Detroit dispatches, and express
doubt as to their correctness.
Mr.. Ernest f. Walton, agent of the
Wickes' Refrigerator Company in this
city, said that he knew Mr.. Wickes very
intimately, and knew that so far from
being a man likely to go on drunken
spree, he was unusually temperate. He
said that he dined with him frequently
and never saw him even taste glass of
wine with his meals.
He also said that there was nothing of
the rounder or man-about- town in his
make up and could in no way account for
the misfortune which had befallen Mr..
Wickes.
Other friends in this city spoke in the
same strain and highly eulogized Mr..
Wickes' modest and retiring life.
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SARATOGA N. Y. Sep. 2G.-Wmiam
Vandeuburgh, Of Saltwater, Saratoga
county, lost his nose Saturday in very
peculiar manner lie is the chief
maehinist i'm the saltwater Pulp Mill,
and while adjusting some portions of the
machinery and bending over his work
something overhead caused him to look
up, when % keen-edged chisel which was
falling from "a platform above, edge
downward struck him on the bridge Of
the nose completely seyeriug chat organ
from his face.
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sOUVENIR HALF-OOLLARs.


Tho Design Finally Agreed Upon BY the
Worlds Fair People.
WASHINGTON, Sep. 26.-The design for
the half million souvenir half-dollars has
been agreed upon by the Worlds Fair
people and Mint Director Leech.
The face of the coin will contain q
head of Columbus and the reverse side
two oaravals under which are two globes.
Across the globes will be the figures 1892
Under the globes will be the year in
which the coin is struck, 1892 and 1898.
Director Leech, speaking of the matter,
said he hoped to have 100000 of these
half-dollar souvenir pieces struck this
year and the remaining 1000, 900 early
in 1898
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10 LEAVE THE ANAL LeAMATEp.
Pittsburg Iron and Steel Finishers Meet
to Consider the Matter.

PITTsBURG, Pa, Sep. 26--The rollers,
heaters, roughers, catchers, sheermen and
other iron and steel finishers, who are
paid by the ton, held Sunday meeting
with the object of withdrawing their
membership from the Amalgamated
Association of Iron and Steel Workes and
taking the necessary preliminary steps
toward the organization of an indepen-
dent National Trades Union, to which
none but workmen of their own class can
be admitted. The leaders in the move
ment are prominent Amalgamated Asso-
clation men.
Owing to frequent disagreements
with the puddlers, and unfriendly feeling
over wage scale settlements, the finishers
have for long time been considering the
step just taken.
This proved surprise to the officers of
the Amalgamated Association.
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Both the method and results when
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys-
tenn efectually, dispels colds, head
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro-
duced, pleasing to the taste and ac-
Ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial in its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend it
TO all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in SOC
and 81 bottles by all leading drug
giste. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro-
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it. DO not accept any
substitute.
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP co.
SAN FRANCISCO CAL.
LOUISVILLE, Ky NEW YORK. M
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BUzzARDs BAY, Mass, Sep 26-Mr.
Cleveland has been deyoting considerable
time during the past week to the prcpara-
tion of his letter of acceptance aud ON be-
ing asked to-day when it might be ex-
pected replied that it was now so far
completed that he could safely promise
that it would be given 20 the public
about the middle of this week.
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BosToN, Sep 26.-"Had it not been for
this storm, one of the Boston represen-
tatives of Perkins & White said to-day,
''the Alva would have been up now
Nearly all the ballast has been taken
out and the men are nearly ready to be-
gin pumping cut the water. While it is
a little early TO set time for the attempt
at raising, it is thought it will be tried
within few days.
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WOMEN MAY SEE FIGHTS.
The New Orleans Olympic Considering
New Plans.


New ORLEANS, Sep. 26.-Capt. Frank
Williams, of the Olympic Club, is the
authority for the statement that at the
next big event before the club ladies will
be admitted to a section of the arena.
This move was looked for some time ago
and after the recent fights it was stated
that the matter would be brought to the
attention of the club members.
Can't. Williams also stated that it was
the intention of the club to agitate the
question Of erecting big hotel under the
name of the club for the accommodation
of strangers coming to the city.
The determination to build a hotel in
opposition to those established is due in
a measure to the refusal of the St. Charles
Hotel TO allow Mr.. Noel the president of
the club, the temporary use of the hotel
parlor for the purpose Of signing the
check of S25, ,0J0 which the club gave
Corbett after his victory over Sullivan.