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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-03-19
INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS.

FOURTH PAGE.
List Of Letters.
Opera House Francis Wilson
Wanted Salesman.
Notice The Wheeling Pubic Library.
For Sale-Bonds.
Public Sale-J c. Hervey.
Bonds for Sale--J. c. Hervey.
For Rent Farm at Point Mills.
Funeral Notice Wheeling Lodge No ia,
Knights of Pythias
Funeral Notice-Wheellng Lodge NO y
4 o. @. r.
Wantcd-Woman TO Work at county
Hospital
FIFTH PAGE.
Dress Goods-Geo NJ. Shook & co.
EIGHTH PAGE
Ladies' Wrappers Stone & Thomas.
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The following oil notes will be pub
lished to-day in St Marys Oracle:
The National Oil Company have a
well drilling on the Isaac Pethtle "a
acre lot on Broad Run, which should
be in the first Of the week.
Mallory Bros. have drilled in little
we'll on Frank Brown lease, Long
Run.
Franchott Bros. well on the same
farm has the tools stuck.
1t is understood Benfiinger 4 Timms
have a andoned the Wilson we'll on
the Meanor lease with two strings of
tools in it.
Wilson'S well on z. T. Riggs lease
is cased, and is good for ten barrels
in the first sand.
Boyd Bros. have rig up on the Pat
terson lease on Vaucluse Pike.
Thompson e Company are moving
the machinery to drill another well
on the Reed farm in the same vicin-
ity.
Eaton & Clemens are drilling on the
James B. West farm on Spice Run OF
French creek.
Reese & Company are ready to go
to drilling on the James Barkwill lot
back of ST Marys.
Durham & Mahaffey should get the
first sand to-day in their No. | on the
Gallaher lease in the upper end OF
town.
Richie & Co. have had trouble with
their well on the Wlngrove farm on
the right fork of French creek, but
have got to drilling again and are now
down some five hundred feet.
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NEW ADVERTISEMENT

->-@>~->-~-----~~-----..
GOOD FARM at Point Minis H. 7 -
Pk mie two dr0 good dne dS SY 9p5 me Na
good barn and all necessary oI-e".
III acres, and good water and ,
orchards, Enquire of MRS. r. 1921
No. 50 Eighteenth street When ~ Il,
Va. rL,
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Americaus. Evidently the war cloud
is not as, dense ,as it was.
OIL NEWS.
New Wells and observation-disclosures About
the Producing Wells.

Following are the quotations given
out by the Seep Junchasing Agency for
crude petroleum of different grades.
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Spanish securities are sitter; SO are
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GRAND OPERA HOUsE-To-day. mat
inee and evening. Under the Dome :
Sixth"
OPERA HOUSEKEEPING night Francis
Wilson, in Half a King"
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WANTED.
AGENTS WANTED
FEMALE HELP WAN TED.

WANTED-A sober industrious woman
for general work At County Hospital
to CAPT w. A. MCCOY, Elm Grove. W
Va. mh19erdq
ANTED-Energetic woman to travel on
salary to get agents for superior line Of
goods. CORSET AND SKIRT WORKS,
Ann Arbor. Mich jazz, sat
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The people who are operating in Whis-
key run are having hard time Of it on
account of the terrible condition OF the
roads from EHenboro.
Theae are now four producing wells in
this field, and they are making about Is
barrels an hour, distributed as follows:
Abicht No. !, 10 barrels am hour. Abicht
No. ,, 80 barrels an hour; Williamson No.
1. 10 barrels an hour and Barnes No. l,
Is barrels.an hour. All are within short
radius. BIO, are of such nAa gnitude that
it is believed there is pool, of some con-
sequence there.
Gartlan q Co. have the rig up for their
No. 3 on the Williamson farm. Their Nos.
and > have been located.
The South Penn Oil Co.'S No. / on the
Delong lease is drilling at about 100 feet.
Their No. / on the Mahaney is drilling
at 500 feet and No. / on the ID. q. Payne
at l.2G0 feet. These three wells are i'm
portant ones
Mallory K Barnsdall's No. 3 on the
Abicht will be due in the sand the early
part of next week. 1t is little to the
north of the wells already drilled.
Mallory Bros well on the t.. NJ. Butch
er farm to the northeast is drilling on top
of the sand. Ii Isl 500 feet from the dry
hole drilled on the, Hamilton.
Guffy & Co are due in the sand the
first of the week at their No. l on the w.
Fl. Hamilton, which offsets Mallory &
Barnsdan's No. 3 on the Abicht.
The South Penn Oil Co.'S No / on the
Thomas Whaley. located almost directly
north Of the development and the farthest
well ahead is drilling at 600 feet. This
well is north of the well on the A. &.
Whaley, which was shot and started off
at Is barrels day
McGregor No. ! is located 10 the east
on a direct north and south line from the
dry hole on the Hamilton. viii be due in
the sand the first of next week
The Elk Fork Oil and Gas Go. have
been compelled to move the rig at their
Nos 10 ard II on the j. X. Hill 40
acres Fishing jobs.
Boyd Bros well on the Smith farm at
Hebron was due in the sand last evening.
Bartlett & Stanclif are drilling on top
of the sand in their No. l on the Fetch
er in the vicinity of Centreville.
The Hickman Oil Co have drilled their
well on the Hickman farm into the top
of the sand and had good gas pressure.
AT Wilson Run the Carter Oil Co. has
moved the rig at their No. on the Ed
wards lease.
The Fisher Oil Co has made the loca-
lions and are building the rigs for their
Nos. ) and on the Edwards. Their No.
4 drilled in last week is showing up for
about 80 barrels a day.
The Gordon Co will commence drilling
in a couple Of days at their No. ? on the
Beaver.
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T ITNNIo.
Hamilton Oil Co, Whitc, j. r.. & h,
GEORGE WISE. y. ut
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mbrrlin9 Resisten
CHARLES H. TANEY, GENERAL MANAGER
Delivered by Carriers.

Daily. per week TO De paid weekly. Zoe
6aiis, a.,d enndar nor week I5c
Asiiy and SWndtv ner 1nonth..... &c
Single copies of Daily, &c; Sunday &c
Of,
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HOTEL BOWER, pITTSBuRG, PA.

Lease. furniture and good will of old
established 130-room house for sale do
ing a good business. Must sell on &C
count Of health. Great cnance for a good
man Price. SO eco Rent 5000 per year
J-year lease Come and see.
mh1S. Is. q. "A 26 % j. b. BOY Err, Prop.
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u UBIC SALE.

[ will sell tx-o fine pianos in good con
dition at No. 1887 Market street Market
Square, west side. on Wednesday morn
ing March 23d, 1898, commencing at 10
O'Clock a. m. Terms cash.
J. c. HERNEG,
mh19erdq Auctioneer.
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AUCTION SALE

OF Household Furniture Carpets. etc. At
the 22d day Of March, 1898. | will sell at
public auction a lot of good furniture,
carpets, etc. Everything in the house
will be sold cheap Terms cash
]. G. HERVEY, Auctioneer.
mar17etdq
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1t was a great trip for the young
Tuen, this one forty-four years ago,
when with a beating of tom-toms and
rood deal of other unnecessary russ
she was escorted to the three-Walted
City of Peking, where, in the heart OF
the town. are set the Emperor's pal
aces. But it was a trip for wh1ch no
return ticket is ever issued. She knew
that. once we'll inside the third wall,
she would never issue forth again, nor
ever behold more father or mother or
friends of the Viceroy's family
From the royal harem, the palace
of earth's repose," as it is called IN
flowery language, no woman ever oe-
parts alive once she has entered, and
the Emperor himself rarely leaves the
splendid isolation of his palace and
gardens Not that the prospect daunted
Tuen. In the golden cage she saw an
other opportunity, for she felt that it
was not her fate to blush unseen,
and her purpose never once faltered.
Once a secret is spoken it ceases to
be a secret-it is in the air, and the
beauty and wisdom of Tuep- Tson-Hsi
was soon discussed in the 'harem, so
by and by the son of Huren" himself,
the Emperor, began to hear of it, and
naturally to be curious. He saw that
she was lovely, with soft, olive COM
pleXion, and lips as red as the cherry
blossom, which Orientals love. AS for
form, she carried herself like Queen
poor slave girl that she was-perhaps
it was all an idle boast of her fathers
that the blood of Tartars flowed in his
veins, and the Tartars are the real
aristocrats of China. Having won the
Emperor by her beauty Tuen proceed
ed to hold him by the force of her men
tally. Meyer the sort Of person to
let opportunities slip, you may be sure
she had learned of affairs of state from
her friend the Viceroy and the visitors
to his household. and the Emperor was
charmed to find that she understood
pull happenings and the needs of the
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only thing on board was a corpse. Upon
subsequent investigation they learned.
much to their surprise, that this was
actually the case.
Nov l maintain" said the colonel,
shifting his slippered feet to the table,
that the power which could ascertain
that there was corpse on board that
ship, while the ship was yet afar off,
could just as easily ascertain how
many guns and men there were, for
instance, on one of Cervera' S ships
While the latter were yet in Santiago
harbor. 1t is only a question as to
whether people in these days possess
the powers attributed to these an
clients; and, of course, / believe that
some do to a certain extent; and that
it can be cultivated indefinitely. My
wife often tells me that some particular
individual is on the way to see me long
before he rings my bell. How does she
get this information? / don't know,
and she doesn't. But I believe it is
hint of this same power which we read
of in connection with the prophets of
the Bible and the oracles of the Greeks
! believe that with persistent training
and steady application to a particular
purpose this power would be made
available in military service.
England discovered long ago that
in India the natives have means of
sending information without telegraphs
or wires, and with a epeed that pre-
cludes the idea of couriers. | have read
of instances of this sort which put all
our scientific methods. to the blush.
believe this power is used by natives
who have developed it by years of spe-
cial training.
II am not a Swedenborgian," said the
colonel but in reading some memoirs
of Swedenborg 1 ran across some re-
markable instances of this same pow
en-" Taking down from some shelves
an old book which the colonel said has
been long out of print, he read an ac-
count which is fairly summarized as
follows:
Swedenborg was in Gottenburg,
three hundred miles from Stockholm
On Saturday night great fire oc-
Cured in his native city. Swedenborg
described this fire, giving the facts of
its origin, the time and place, and it's
progress and termination, showing that
he possessed some strange power of
seeing or experimenting events at
great distance. Subsequent dispatches
conclusively proved the accurac-v of his
statements.
1.-THE authenticity of this wonderful
account is vouched for by the great
German philosopher Kant" said the
colonel.
mo, don't prefer / to understand
how it is DONE" replied the colonel in
response to a question. Il do not at
tribute it to spirits, so-called but to
some hidden faculty of the human
mind, which, for some reason, is not
generally developed among us mod
ems.
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Q COCO 9 00 0o0C 60 c c c 3G
OCCULT POWERS FOR
SECRET SERVICE.

and that whatever he might undertake
Israel forestalled him. He naturally
concluded that there were Hebrew spies
among his forces. He called his SER
wants together and demanded to know
who was for the King Of Israel. One
of the number answered: None, my
lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet
that is in Israel, telleth the king of
Israel the words that thou speakest in
thy bed chamber
You viii find this in Second Kings,
sixth chapter, twelfth verse. Now you
may say that this is an instance of Spe-
cial providence; that the prophet,
Elisha, was given this miraculous
power from on high for this especial
purpose. But l find that similar pow
ers have been exercised by pagans, In
matters whore we should not think of
asserting any special divine dispensa-
ton. Among the oracles of the Greeks
we find many instances of it. On one
occasion Croesus, King OF Lydia, de-
sired to test the powers of the oracle
at Delphi. He sent messengers who
should ask on a certain day what the
King was at that time doing. At the
time appointed, says Herodotus. the
King hit upon the following to be done,
as something which he supposed might
be difficult to detect and describe: Cut
ting up a tortoise and lamb, he boiled
them together IN q DraZen vessel, which
also had cover of brass.
Mote the answer of the oracle" and
the colonel took up volume of Hero
dotus from the table, and read as fol-
lows: 81 know the number of the
sands and the measure of the sea;
know what the dumb would say; I hear
him who speaks not. There comes to
me the odor of tortoise and lambs
flesh, seething together in brass yes
sci; beneath the flesh is brass; there is
also brass above
Laying the book down and putting
a moment at his cigar the colonel con-
tinued: Nov, what kind of a power
is it that enables one thus to learn
what a certain individual is saying in
his private chamber, or doing in his
own court? Is this power at all COM
NOM"
Here is another instance of it. The
great philosopher, Pythagoras, JOS
sessed this mysterious power, If the
records of his life are true. On one oc-
casion, when a certain ship was seen
coming into port some persons near
him expressed the wish that they might
possess the great treasure which thew
believed to be on board the vessel.
Pythagoras quietly told them that the
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I'm discussing the signal and secret
4 service of our army in the war with
Spain Colonel Graham. retired Of
ficer who served his country in the
II Civil War, has just expressed some
UNIQUE views which will be of in
terest to others than those engaged in
military affairs.
I'm the first place. said the colonel,
lighting a fresh cigar and placing his
slippered feet comfortably on chair,
you know that one OF the most i'm
portant things in connection with mod
ern warfare is gaining accurate infor-
nation of the position and strength or
the enemy's forces. To accomplish
this. many ingenious means have been
employed. The spy system has serious
limitations, not to s~eak OF the risk to
life involved-for in all countries spy
is executed when caught. Captive bal
looms, cameras, sent~up kites, carrier
pigeons, have all been employed in the
service OF securing and transmitting to
Headquarters some information con-
corning the enemv. But all these
methods fail in certain conditions. For
instance, our Government was Tor
long time un? BILE TO learn the where
abouts of Cervera's fleet; and lack OF
more definite information as to the
Spanish defenses of Santiago, no doubt,
caused US unnecessary loss of life in
the first engagements Now, l be-
lieve it possible to institute secret
service whose operations would be alb
solutely unknown TO the enemy. involve
no risk to life or limb, and yet result
in securing accurate information under
all circumstances. AS ! said at hrst,
these views will seem extreme to some,
but I have Holy Writ, secular history
and modern science on my side to sup
port the possibility of what l assert.
I'm looking up some matters con-
nected with the methods of warfare
among the ancient Hebrews happened
to consult, among other books, the
Bible; book" said the colonel, smil
inc and knocking the ashes from his
CIGAR. (which, ] dare say, is seldom
consulted by military officials general
lv. ran across an instance of secret
service which certainly, in its results,
surpasses anything we have yet ac-
complished by our scientific methods.
Israel was at war with Syria. The
Syrian King soon learned that the King
of Israel was familiar with all his plans
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AS A SLAVE GIRL ASKING HER MASTER ONE FAVOR: TO
BE TAUGHT HOW TO READ

all-Work, but at last she had plenty to
eat, which, combined with an excellent
conscience, or no conscience at all,
which some people say is still better,
she grew plump and pretty again, and
you may be sure her alert mind did not
IAN in 1t activity. She was not called
Iuen-Tson-Hsi for nothing, and her
first move was to win the favor of the
Vlceroy's wife and be promoted from
the kitchen to the embroidery frame,
for fancy work of this kind is much
more in demand in China, where men
dress in silks and satins, and no dig
nitary may go with his splendid attire
unembroidered.
1t fell to her task to embroider
robe for the Viveroy, and so we'll did
she Go it that her master deigned first
to be pleased with the work and then
with the worker. and ii began to be
shown that even a servant girl could
90 much to disrupt a household, pro-
Vlded she was young and pretty and
clever enough.
Having obtained some favors, Tuen
began to, ask more. But it was not
jewels or rich dresses or leisure which
she implored t the end of the Vice
rOy's scepter, 1t was a stranger favor
still, and one which thrilled him with
apprehension, for she begged him to
be allowed to learn 10 read Now, this
is 2 thing few Chinese women desire,
and these not OF the serving class
Education is considered all right for
men, and there are Learned Doctors
and 'literates" aplenty, but of the mas
culine persuasion all.
For a servant girl and slave>to want
to read was little short of preposter-
Gus; it was as though a cook had sud
denly requested singing lessons from
Patti Still, absurd as the re-
quest las, the infatuated Vice
roy granted it, and pretty Tuen-Tson-
Hsi drank deep of the literature China
provides for It's high-caste women,
which chiefly consists of exhortations
to discharge all their duties as daugh-
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commission, which terminated it's la
bors in June last, will cause some
changes in the figures referring to the
African colonies, but they will not be
forthcoming until some time in 1899.
The boundaries fixed by the Anglo
French commission may be considered
as still uncertain, as the German Colo
NAL Society, on June %, protested
against them as IAN infringement Of
German rights
OF all her colonial trade France does
the greatest amount with Algeria, the
largest item of Importance being wine.
the aggregate being S19,410,731 The
next item Is 1888 head of sheep, val
ued at $3,107 ,093. In point of population
st. Pierre and Miquelon, one of Frances
American possessions, is the smallest
of all her colonies, and yet in the mat
ter of imports this little colony of only
ninety-four square miles and only $500
population, ranks second to Algeria
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est. If she ever got to be Emnress
she would write very different things
SO Tuen progressed, and as she got
prettler and smarter so she made more
trouble in the Viceroy S calm hol sehold.
ana the wise man, proceeding on the
principle OF anything for a quiet life. ,,
one day dressed his young favorite very
handsomely in imperial yellow silk and
sent sent her OIL IN state present to the
Emperor, sort of graceful acknowlo
edgnent of recent decoration of pea
cocks feathers, which meant that the
emperor had moved the Viceroy one
notch higher in the SOCIAL scala
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not upon the bed. They will be clothed
with a single wrapper A broken tile
will be given them TO play with. What
they do is not good, nor is It bad"
Further on in this delicious literature
Tuen found the teaching that the hus-
band is heaven and the wife is earth,
and the attitude of wife toward her
husband must be that of a subject 20
a prince.
Very little to fire ambition, indeed, is
there in THE Girls Four Books" but
two of them were written by En-
presses, and perhaps that set the young
girl thinking and aSDiring to the high
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'o0'o . 9 o. @ g ooo 0oo0o c 5000 G G
HOW FRANCE MAKES
HER COLONIES Pay.

THE colonial question is one which
is agitating the United States just
at present. When it comes to col
Z onies we are entirely new in the
business. But our curiosity is
great, nevertheless. In view of the fact
that the Hispano-American war has
left US with foreign possessions of our
own, and that we must carefully con-
slider the problem of what we are going
to do with them, any facts and figures
bearing upon the colonies of other ma
lions are of great interest.
The fifteen colonies that are under
French rule contain q, superfice of 1,S77,-
991 square miles and have a population
of 15.615, APT. Their trade with the home
country amounts TO SLAB, $685. 97, the i'm
portations into France therefrom being
s73,079,415. Exports from France thereto
s70,733,512. The recent domination of
the Niger territory by the Anglo French
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tiers, wives. mothers, sisters, and espe-
ciaily as daughters-in-law There is
the ''Nu-er- Ching" which describes
the daily routine of a. girls life both
before and after marriage, and there
is larger work known as The Girls
Four Books" in which the duties of
daughter, wife and mother are explicit
~ laid down and Illustrated by exam
pies. Greatly do these books strain
after humility, and CALLING must their
lessons have been to the ambitious
slave as she read III the first book, for
instance: Girls. when they are born
are placed upon the ground to lie. and
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TIMELY FACTS ABOUT FRANCE AND HER COLONIES
The following
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T no is the most powerful wo-
man in the world? Not
Queen Victoria, upon whose
wide bounds of empire the
e.,,r, ,,a1-a,. eo+e. not tba I'm