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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-11-21
IHORRH q. FIFTH

less likely aspirant for the office of
president He was the candidate of
his party with a view of securing his
release from prison, but such is the
antagonism of the labOrers and en-
ployers in the state that his being
named on the ticket is only another
bolt on his prison door.
Preston was picket working for
the miners at Goldf1eld, and in front
of the establishment of a restaurant
keeper charged with unfairness to
female employee, a member of the
union. The restaurant keeper at
tempted to drive the pickets away, and
drew a pistol, whereupon Preston
shot him dead. Preston pleaded self
defense, but was found guilty and
recommended to mercy. The Judge
sentenced him to 25 years imprison-
ment.
My defense was the one which
rests on the first law of nature, self
preservation" said Preston to a Wis
itor. My candidacy was the product
of sympathy by the members of my
party The latter probably will be as
unavailing as the former, and my
declination of the nomination was not
listened to. 1 am the creature and the
victim OF circumstances L am nO uiuI-
derer, ana no politician
To understand how the prisoner
came to his fate would require re-
view OF the whole labor question as
presented by the miners in the west
The federated body of labor have de-
manded too much, and the employers
have exacetd too much, and Preston
has bsen caught between the two mill
stones, which will grind him up with
out a doubt The Socialist Labor party
is Bot strong enough nor homogene-
GUS enough to exert a definite 1nffu-
ence for his benefit, and until the bit
ter .esses have been allayed there is
bu, little likelihood that he viii obtain
hia release Still, sympathy for him
is Increasing His trouble is that he
is ranked with Harry Orchard and
Haywood and Pettibone, when, as a
matter of fact, he is as alien tn spirit
end disposition to those men as
water is to OIL AS to his candidacy
for president, it is only necessary to
say that he would not command atten-
ton as aspiring for constable under
other conditions than that of victim
| O; the law.
His fellows in prison form body
| almost as noticeable as himself Re
cruited from the mining camps, they
| are for the most part young men, Sc
| Iected lives and peculiarly intelligent
| youth. drawn in many instances from
the universities and colleges of the
| east. who, unable to Withstand the
| temptations of gambling and drink
| were rounded up and corraled IN
prison.
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MORR|E R. PRESTON
NEvADA'S STAR PRISONER, LATE
CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT.
Young Man Undergoing Long Sen
tence for Murder Committed During
Labor TroubIes-Nominate
by Socialist Labo. Party.

Carson City, Nev.-Just south OF
Carson City, at the site of one of the
lnnumerable hot springs that gush
up at intervals in that barren land, is
situated the Nevada penitentiary, con-
tanning now some 800 convicts. 1t
probably is the most delightful penal
eSta bliShment in the world and is con-
Quoted upon such a liberal basis that
the residents of the state refer to it
as the best hotel in Nevada AS
matter of fact, there is some satire in
the general comment, because the SEN
fences being served there are for the
most part excessive, the natural re-
suit of the administration of law in a
new and mining country.
Among the prisoners there is one
of more than passing interest, a
young fellow "a years old, with a clear
cut, intellectual face, big, clear blue
eyes, gentle manner, a sweet, music
al voice, white teeth, the address and
ing a sentence of 25 years. He was
the candidate of the Socialist Labor
party for president of the United
States at the recent election. His
name is Morrie r. Preston, and his
crime is murder, committed under the
stress of influences engendered by the
Federation of Labor in the mining dis
derer you could by no means find, not
if you sought him through all the
pages of romance and history. nor a
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Bank Clerks Tempted.

and in this connection let me re-
mark that while the bank officer is
surrounded on all sides by temptation,
and some criminally use the banks
funds, one must not for a moment
think that they are the only ones
connected with the Institution who
are subject to temptation and who,
far too often, listen to the voice of
the tempter and become defaulters.
Every clerk in the bank, whether he
handles a dollar of the banks money
or not, is subject to many, if not all.
of the temptations that beset his SUI
perior officer. The defalcations by
the clerical force of banks can be
traced to nearly all the causes enum-
Grated as being the cause of defalca-
lions by officers.
But at bottom the fault is with
the officers. Many bank clerk who
has been unfaithful to his trust and
has used the funds of the Institution
with which he was connected for
speculation, in the stock, grain or cot
ton market, or for games of chance at
the gambling house, or for betting at
the race track, or for extravagant 1iv.
ing, ETC., has been encouraged to take
his first false step by the loose man
ner in which the affairs of the bank
were conducted and its accounts kept
He saw the slip-shod way in which
things were done, by every one con
nected with the bank, that clerical
errors in the books were not located
and corrected, and that general mis-
management prevailed. Is it any won
der that he used the funds of the
bank and took the chances of detec
ton with such a condition of affairs
surrounding him? The marvel is that
under such conditions, more do not
succumb to temptation.
THE defaulter who is merely q
clerk in the bank and whose misdeeds
are usually traceabIe to lack of prop
er supervision of his work by his
| superiors is generally brought to book
/ for his dishonesty. He is usually con
| victed, poor fellow. He has no inf1u
entail associates to use their power to
| shield him. He has no money OF
| wealthy relatives or friends to employ
| able criminal lawyers to defeat the
! ends of justice. The bank officer, on
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BOY KEPT SCRATCHING.
Eczema Lasted z Years-Face Was All
RaW-Skin Specialists Failed, But
Cuticura Effected Cure.

when my little boy was six weeks
old an eruption broke out on his face
took him to a doctor, but his face
kept on getting worse until it got so
bad that no one could look at him.
His whole face was one crust and
must have been very painful. He
scratched day and night until his face
was raw. Then 1 took him to all the
best specialists in skin diseases but
they could not do much for him. The
eczema got on his arms and legs and
we could not get a nights sleep in
months. / got set of Cuticura RENE
dies and he felt relieved the first time
used them. 1 gave the Cuticura
Remedies a good trial and gradually
the eczema healed all up. He is now
seven years old and I think the trou-
BILE will never return. Mrs. John G.
Klumpp, so Niagara ST., Newark, N.
J., Oct II and %, 1907
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ket as a lamb, and in consequence is
thorough ly f1eeced.
Instances InnumerabIe.

Instances InnumerabIe.
continued Mr. Moxey with a brisk lit
tie sigh "A large bank in one of our
eastern cities was wrecked through
the speculations of it's president in
stocks; another one through specu-
lationS of it's cashier in the
same market. Some years ago a
large bank in the middle west was
wrecked by its vice-president in an at
tempt to corner the wheat market;
while a bank in a southern city was
wiped out of existence by it's presi-
dents and cashiers speculations in
the cotton market The number of
cases that could be cited are in
Vulnerable, and there is not section
of the country that has escaped. The
number of bank wrecks piled upon
the financial beach is a silent monu-
ment to this truth.
But no president, vice-president
cashier or assistant cashier of a bank
can use it's funds for his own profit
without the fact being known to at
least a portion of the clerks, and it is
through their silence or stupidity re-
garding what is being done in their
presence that bank officers are en-
abled and, in many cases, encour-
aged to take the banks money. If
bank clerks would do their full duty
there would be fewer cases of defalca-
ton by the officers than in these
sorry times.
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EAGER TO WORK
Health Resained by Right Food.

The average healthy man or woman
is usually eager to be busy at some
useful task or employment.
But let dyspepsia or indigestion get
hold of one, and all endeavor becomes
a burden.
"A year ago, after recovering from
an operation" writes Mich. lady, my
stomach and nerves began to give me
much trouble.
AT times my appetite was vora.
eious, but when INDUCED, indigestion
followed. Other times had no appetite
whatever. The food 1 took did nos
nourish me, and I grew weaker than
ever.
81 lost interest in everything, and
wanted to be alone. had always had
good nerves, but now the merest trife
would upset me and bring on p VIC
lent headache. Walking across the
room was an effort and prescribed ex.
ercise was out Of the question.
ct had seen Grape-Nuts advertised.
but did not believe what I read, at
the time. At last when it seemed as
If were literally starving, began to
eat Grape-Nuts.
ST had not been able to work for
a year, but now after two months on
Grape-Nuts 1 am eager to be at work
again My stomach gives me no trou-
BILE now, my nerves are steady as
ever, and interest in life and ambition
have came back with the return To
health"
There's Reason" ,
| Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich Read 1.-The Road to Well
| yiIle,'' in pkgs.
Ever read the above Ietterf A new
one appears from time to tine. They
I are genuine true aud full NJ humaz
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His Opinion.

de race has got ter rise an shine
eff ever it hopes ter git dar," said
Brother Williams TOO many of us
thinks dat all we got ter do is ter go
ter sleep in de hot sun an rise up an
eat watermillions in de shaded Dey
amt no room in dis worP fer de lazy
man. He's always de one what gifts
run over, an den lays dar an bowls
tif,u
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His Epitaph.

ST have just one request" said the
dying man to his relatives.
What is it?" they asked him earn
estly 1--WE will grant you anything"
''Well,' replied the man, feebly, q
want you to have carved upon my
monument these words: Here lies
man who worked for his living"
Realizing that he had forestalled
any attempt on the part of his rich re
lations to brag too much about their
family connections, he sank into
sweet sleep.
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Nuts.

One very great advantage which
nuts possess over most foods is their
absolute freedom from adu1teration.
When you buy nuts, you always know
what you are getting. OF course,
those bought in the shell are also abb
solutely clean. And what beautiful
source they come FRONT How delight
full to picture the trees upon which
they grow, on the outermost branches
dancing in the sunbeams.-Good
Health
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New York is to blame for it,
Gray-whiskered, gray-haired gray
eyed, gray-clad, d slender gentleman
of astonishing neatness and a certain
amiable precision of speech leaned
back in his office chair with his hands
behind his head and smiled alertly.
writes Frank c. Drake, in the New
York World. Such is first impress
sion of Edward P. Moxey, whose Off
cial title is Expert Bank Examiner
for the United States Department of
Justice and such were his words in
speaking of the epidemic of bank de-
falcations which has been sweeping
over the country.
Whereas Mr.. MoXeys business is to
fit about the country and peer unex-
pectedly over the shoulders of the
cashiers of national banks here and
there in order to find out if their cash
balances are all right; and whereas
Mr.. Mickey had found some 80 of these
gentlemen with their cash balances all
wrong and, to their great grief and
amazement, has put them in the peni-
Tertiary; and whereas Mr.. Moxey,
fresh from sending Gohn R. Walsh of
Chicago to join the others, has come
to New York to look into the book
keeping of Charles w. Morse and Al
fred H. Curtis, on trial for trying, it
is alleged, to buy a national bank
with its own money; therefore does
the said Edward P. Moxey speak with
some authority of bank defalcations
and their causes.
You mean the Broadway New
York?'' I asked
"Rroadway" Blamed.
q mean the Broadway New York,
he answered quietly. Il mean the
gorgeous hotels and restaurants, the
bars, the gambling houses, the myriad
theaters, and palatial apartment
houses, the turning of night into day
I mean the flood of money in New
York upon which this life is borne
along the craving for vast incomes
by which alone such life can be
lived.
ITO say that even a bare majority
of the tens of thousands of men who
nightly swell the crowd of amuse
ment-crazed spenders, who live in
$4,000 apartments, and whose touring
cars congest the streets, are doing
this with money which is honestly
theirs is absurd. They are not earn
ing this money; they are either jug
Cling other peoples cash or they are
gambling with their own. When yoJ
can go into a restaurant at two O'Clock
in the morning and behold see .00t
worth of women's gowns at the table:
and $4,000 worth of food in process
of consumption, something is wrong
And when you observe half a million
dollars worth of automobiles waiting
to take this one supper crowd to thei
homes-or elsewhere-you may b.
sure that there is queer bookkeeping
somewhere.
All Copy New York.
1t is not only this sort of life il
New York, but in a more sinister way
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ing according to the size of his opera
lions and the fluctuations of the mar
ket, before he is hopelessly involved
and financially unable to return the
money of the bank which he has used
He now speculates more wildly than
before, and upon a much larger scale,
with the hope that one fortunate turn
of the market will enable him to make
enough money to square himself with
the bank In his case history only
repeats itself. He went into the mar
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To Help Cause In Pacific state.

DR. Martha Hughes Cannon, former
" a state senator of Utah, has gone
to live in California with the intention
of helping the women of that state to
get equal suffrage He il described as
powerful and witty speaker.
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100000
food of consumption something wrong"
O. n
, CT i S bout
o
ares by
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Folly.

There may be pearl in the occa-
sional oyster, but anyone wanting
pearls would be foolish to go to a
sea-food house to buy them.-Detroit
Free TFess.
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Kidney Pills and the backache ceased.
Encouraged, 1 kept on, and by the
time I had used three boxes not a
sign of the trouble remained. My
health is perfect
Sold by all dealers so cents a box
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
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the other hand, having what his clerk
sorely lacks, too often escapes the
Just punishment which his criminal
acts demand
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martyr TO kinney
trouble, backache.
dizzy spells, head
aches and a ter
rible bearin g-down
pain. I used one
remedy after an
other without bene-
fit. Finally 1 used
a box of nnan'S
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honest Dueto dern
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were not but because it has been my
experience of many years that these
periods of -defalcation come in cycles.
Whatever the cause, there are cycles
of honesty and cycles of dishonesty;
and the present is a cycle of dishon-
esty with it's cause in modern stand
ards of enjoyable living.
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the sight and example of it, which is
bringing about a degradation of the
sense of common honesty throughout
the country. That fine American as
set, the New England conscience has
become an object of jest. And, as l
said, New York is to blame. AS in
all other matters, theatrical, literary
and artistic, the other cities and towns
take their cue from New York. AS
New York lives SO they all wish to
live To-day in towns as small as
$4,000 population there are springing
up all-night grill rooms with Hun
garian orchestras, wherein the young
business men of these communities
must foregather if they are to be il.
the social swim with their local smart
set.
THE young banker or business man
in the smaller community comes to
New York. He is taken in hand by
his business acquaintances here and
shown about the town. His hosts
spend money on a scale which dazzles
him. They take him to luxurious
hotels and cafes where they and the
head walters know each other by
name and where he is introduced to a
scale of living fit only for men of
A1iAlionS- ne "onuerS now MS 1rlendS
manage to share in this prodigality,
| and bit by bit he finds out. They tell
| him funny stories of transactions
| which, reduced to a proper. financial
| analysis, are defalcations pure and
| simple or, at best, plain gambling.
| Everybody does it, they say; its
| part of the game And back to his
| home town goes the young banker,
| filled with dreams of sudden wealth
and all the gay life that goes with it
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PERFECT HEALTH.
After Years of Backache, Dizziness
and Kidney Disorders.

Mrs. R. c. Richmond. of Northwood.
Iowa, says: For years / was a
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First Step to Ruin.

Too often this person starts to lead
the gay life before he has got the
sudden wealth. He sees the rich Gus
toner of his bank rolling up to the
door with a big deposit or to get a
letter of credit for a trip abroad He
suspects-perhaps rightly-that their
money came by some financial 1eger-
demain as his New York friends have
described with so much relish. Per-
hapS. e tells himself, it isn't their
mone5 all Why, then, shouldn't
he sculate it for his own gain:
why isn't 1T anybody's to play with
who can get his hands on it? The
life he has seen, the methods he has
learned are destroying his sense of
property He is somehow getting it
into his head that this money placed
in his keeping is a sort of common
property and that, so long as he can
keep his books looking technically
right, he may juggle with it for the
benefit of his own personal pocket.
He really comes to believe, seriously.
that this is so.
Indeed said Mr.. Moxey with a
certain stern tingle in his voice, 1.-The
attitude of trusteeship has suffered a
shocking change in recent years
say in recent years, not because 1 am
one of those pessimistic old fogies
who think that people generally were
more honest in other days, which they
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-11-21
A MERE CIPHER.
FOSter-A

Bertha BERTHE, you are simply
possible.
Bertie-Nothing is impossible.
Bertha-That's what / said.
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All Copy New York.
1t is not only this sort of life in
New York, but in a more sinister way,
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-05-16
CHICAGO QRAIM.

Chicago, Wheat-May sold be-
tween 80 and 90, opening at 80
"a and closing at 90; July sold
between SS rs and 80 3-S opening
at so IA and closing at SS rs;
September sold between S5 7-S and
3G IA, opning at sc Is and closing
at SO 7-S-
Corn-May sold between "A Is %
"A "a. opening at "A IA and clos
ing at "A "a; July sold between
65 IA and 66, opening at 65 3-S
and closing &c; September sold be-
tween 63 Is and SO "a. opening
at 63 IA and closing at 63 "a
Oats-May sold between 81 and
81 IA opening at 5i is and clos
ing at 54; July sold between as "a
and AZ, opening at As "a and clos
ing at AZ; September sold between
81 Is and 81 10; opning at 81
IA and closing at 81 ID
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-05-16
COIN SWEATING.
An Illegal Practice Which Has Fallen
Into Disusc.

An Illegal Practice which ttas Fanen
Into Disuse.
Closely allied to the making OF coun-
terfeit coins and usually combined
with that ncfarious trade Is what is
known as "swenting." which requires
considerable skill to accomplish sue
cessfully. A rubber mold is used, into
which a gold coin TO be sweated Is In
troduced and held with clip.
Copper wires having been adjusted,
the coin is immersed in a bath Of
cyanide of potassium and an electric
battery set going. The action of the
electricity upon the coin in the acid
uniformly sweats the metal-that is &c
say, causes so much of It to become
detached. This process is gone through
with n large number Of coins. and the
gold deposit thus obtained is extracted
from the acid.
existence of such reduced coins that
bankers weigh gold coins In balance.
and II one is in the scale II will imme-
diately be shown by the indicator. The
light coin Is then taken out. and what
ever the shortage represents that
amount the customer will have tc
make up or be fined.
But, all things considered. sweating
Is but poor business. says III. l.
Adam In his interesting book. "The
Story of Crime" and evidently II Is
thought so by the criminal fraternity
for It has dwlndled to a mere nothing
A sovereign weighs 123.27447 grains
and the limit Of error in the weight IL
2 of grain. from which 1t may
readily be gathered that sweating can
not now be very lucrative business
London Tit-Bits.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-05-16
A arid. wien Some Good poin,,.

Some years ago In an agricultural
district In England there lived farm
er who wanted to sell one of his cows
There was not at that time a weekly
paper in which he could advertise, so
he resolved to follow a local custom
and ask the vicar of the parish when
giving out his notices at church to ad-
vertise the COW.
"Yes, farmer said the vicar. 81
should be willing to obigc you. but
YOU don't attend my church."
Presently. however, they struck a
bargain that the vicar should adver-
tise the COW, and the man In return
promised to go to church. Now, un-
fortunately the man was deaf. and on
the Sunday following when the vicar
gave out the banns of marriage be-
tween Joseph So-and-so. bachelor. and
Sarah So-and-so. spinster, the farmer
took 1t for granted that the vicar was
giving out particulars of his COW and
shouted out:
you might as well say while you
are about II that she is n most gentle
creature and entirely free from vice.
STRAY Stories.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-05-16
Tn. Poor Hunarx E;,b.

"Here is an interesting thing that
happened last summer to friend anc
myself" said New Yorker. I'VE had
gone on a fishing trip in rowboat,
but 1t seemed that either all the fish
were at another place or were not hun
CRY. We decided II those fish we're
not hungry we we're We had taken
our luncheon, as wise fishermen will.
and in order to keep the bread as fresh
as possible had left 1t in loaf form.
My friend asked me to pass 1t to him,
and in doing so the loaf of bread went
overheard. We made out the best we
could without the bread and later row.
ed to another place to fish. On our
way back we passed the place where
we lost our bread. Then we saw the
sight Of our lives. On each side of the
loaf of bread stood a big fish, and for
as far as we could see there was n
great line of small fish. We wondered
what 1t was, and then the thought
dawned on us--those fish had formed
bread line" and the two large fish
were dealing out the bread. After that
we didn't have the heart to try to
catch any of those poor, hungry fsh."