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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-30
Denslow on the street. and took hin

Denslow on the street. and took him
home with me Tor dinner.
BY the way, he. said. Major Car
roll died lasy Nesk
was shocked
-Queerest thing. about that forgery
case, never could place the guilt" he
went on. But right after the majors
death Miss Carroll made good the
amount of those notes TO the last PEN
ny $4,000 IN all. You see my boy, you
were mistaken in her, after all.
After ne had gone. sat down late
as it was and wrote Genevieye letter
commencing her for the reparation she
had made, and ending by telling her
still loved her and if she would mar
~ me l would be the happiest man on
earth. Neither one of us was wealthy
now, but l was very comfortably fixed
and would soon graduate in my pro-
fession. | rushed out and mailed II
before an overwhelming sense OF honor
would cause me TO repent. At the same
time Geneyieve was writing TO me.
got her note with the next early
morning mail. II ran:
Joe, dear, am here in Boston.
AOAllc " luC dI OlSC-
"GENEvIEyE.
lost no time in getting TO the hotel
at which she was stopping. She re-
ceiyed me in a pretty paror on the
breakfast room.
Have you forgiven me, Joe?" she
asked.
Yes" l said, and told her of the let
ter | mailed the night before.
Then 1t was that | learned the true
story of the Carroll forgery, Major
Carroll, deep in debt. with all his real
estate so mortgaged and tied up he
could not touch it, took advantage Of
his purported large bank account and
drew up notes to the amount of $4,000
which he iokingly had his daughter
sign. so that when they were due the
air of forgery would save him. These
notes an accomplice disposed of and
the money was turned over to Miss Car
rolls private estate. This she learned
when the notes became due. Rather
than pronounce her father a criminal.
she had all these months sacrificed her
own love anu honor.
We were married that day, and Dens-
low gave the brid e away.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-30
FORESTS OF THE PHILIPPINES,


Capt. Aherne Declares There are
From Twenty to Forty Million
Acres of Highly Valuable woods
belonging Largely to the state.
The division Of customs and insular
affairs of the War Department has
made public summary of the first
report OF the Philippine bureau of for
estry, organized in it's present form
under an order Of the military COVER
nor dated April IA, 1900
Its first work was confined to as
certaining the condition of the records
received from the Spanish government,
under which that bureau had not only
had the care of the forests, but also
the survey of the public lands.
The laws in effect at the time of
American occupation are said TO have
been in line with the most advanced
forestry legislation of Europe, but were
not fully enforced, the licenses cutting
any and every thing. The result was
that valuable rL3ber, gutta percha and
ylang-ylang trees were taken, and even
the most valuable, used as irewood.
The old regulations were translated
and revised, taking effect in their new
for system by which permits to cut
timber can be secured, the fees being
based upon the different varieties, of
which 1896 are named in the order.
After the regulations were promul-
| gated more than 81 additional species
became known and others are being
brought to the knowledge Of the bur
eau almost every week. The director,
Capt. Aherne, estimates the total num-
Der of kinds of trees in the archipela-
go at nearly 500.
There are no pure forests of any one
species, nor more than three or four
trees of one variety being found group
ed together. so that lumberman look
ing for shipload of one kind of tim
her would find it practically impossible
to cut that and no other, and cargoas
must be assembled from different
points.
Capt. Aherne states that from differ
ent sources of information he is led to
believe the public forest lands comprise
from one-fourth to possibly one-half
the area of the Philippine islands, or
from 100000 to 10000 900 acres.
There are fully 100000 acres of
virgin forest owned by the State in the
islands of Mindoro, with an area of
some 20,000000 acres, is almost en-
tirely covered with timber, and even
in the province of Cagayan, on Luzon,
there are more than 100000 acres
Of forest. ~- 1o iet~- = 7I4'47A
In many provinces of Luzon, espec-
tally in the country close to Manila,
much timber has been cut, and to
fill large contracts the lumbermen are
obliged to go quite a distance from
the city, in order to find suitable
tract.
Capt Aherne mentions tracts of vir-
gin forests to be seen on the southern
islands, where from 10000 to 10000
cubic feet of magnificent timber per
acre was standing, with trees more
than $50 feet in height. the trunks
clear of branches for 60 feet, and more
than four feet in diameter.
He states that in these forests there
are millions of cubic feet of timber
which should be cut out, in order to
thin this dense growth, so that the
maximum annual growth could be OBJ
Tot,
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-30

we are living in the Kali yuga. or Iron
Age, of which 1886 years have passed.
This takes US back to about the time
OF the Creation. accor Ting to our pop
ular or Biblical CHRONOLOGY, and by the
Hindoo notion this era has still vast
course to run.
There is no lack of definiteness. Be-
ginning and end are both precisely
known, and so we learn that the en-
tire duration of the present err is, in
all, $4,000 years. But this is a mere
drop in the bucket. A Kali Yuga OF
$4,000 years, plus a Dvapara 1uga
is $4,000 years, a Treta Yuga, or
Silver Age, OF 1,296,00o years, and a
Krita Yuga, or Golden Age, of LES
600 years. form together Maha Yuga,
or Great Age, OF 100000 years. OF
these Great Ages there are seventy
enc, or 306, 100000 years, plus a twi-
light of 1,720,000 years, or, in all, $685.
$4,000 years, in a Patriarchate. Four
teen of these Patriarchates - 4.31S.-
272 900 years, with dawn of 1,72S,OOO
years-gives 4,320,000, 900 years, and
this tremendous period is Kalpa, or
aeon.
But the matter goes far beyond even
this, for Kalpa, or aeon. is only one
day Brahma, his night is of the
same duration, $50 such days and
nights form a year of his life. which
lasts 100 of these years.
Brahma's life did not begin yes
terday, nor even 5000 years ago, and
IN reckoning it we are taken back
a bit beyond our puny era, as well as
into the future, for the present age
is the Kali Yuga of the Twenty
eighth great age of the seventeenth
patriarchate of the first aeon OF the
second half OF the life 0 Brahma.
Working this out, it appears that Brah-
ma is at present only one hundred and
fifty-fve billion i've hundred and
twenty-one thousand nine hundred
and seventy-two million eight humid
red and forty-eight thousand nine
hundred and ninety-six years old.
And then, to crown these appalling
figures, we have further to note that
Brahma's whole life, which lasts more
than three hundred billions of years,
is only the wink" OF Siva's eye.
III Lue DTdu HtHlCdl WillIuSSs lHS
length of one aeon, or kalpa, quoted
here as a definite number of years,
is sometimes treated more imaginat-
lively, and as a measure of time indi-
eating something OF the duration OF an
eternity. Thus, or instance, its length
is described: Take a rock forming
cube of about sixteen miles each
way, touch it once in hundred years
with the finest piece OF cloth, and the
rock will sooner be reduced to dust
than a kalpa shall end"
Or again: "a vast well, 500 miles
every way, filled with minute hairs
SO closely packed that a river hurried
over them without penetrating the in
I terstices,o could be emptied during a
ka1pa at the rate of one hair in cen
tury.'
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-30
THE FEE QUESTION.

Hon. S. L. Stapleton, of Wood, has
been returned to the House of Dele
gate, and it may be taken for granted
that he will again go after the fee
grabbers down at Charleston. Mr..
Stapleton gave the Auditor and Sec
rotary of State a bad scare at the
session OF 1897, and there is more
reason now than then for a little
wholesome legislation, as the total of
fees received is constantly and rap
idly growing, and is probably now
twice as large as four years ago. There
should be a fixed salary for these of
fees, and all fees turned into the State
treasury, and if Mr. Stapleton, in his
capacity as reformer, will draft a
bill to some such general effect, he
will deserve and will receive the graf
itude of the people of this State.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-30
A .DISCOVERY.v

They have made the astonishing dis
covery over in New York, through the
latest reform movement, that there are
big buildings on prominent streets
wholly given over to Furnished room"
accommodations for women of the
town, and few details provocative of
horror editorial comment and of let
tiers from scandalized people are get
ting into print.
To make this discovery" and pre-
tend to be shocked by it, is the quintes-
sence of hypocrisy. The TACT that en-
tire blocks oil pretentlous and SEEM
ingly respectable buildings in New
York are wholly monopolized by this
particular species of femininity has
been perfectly well known to the po-
lice, the newspapers and the people of
the city for many years, as the fact
is known in every city. 1t will be next
III order for somebody in Pittsburg to
discover" that Second avenue or Grant
street need reformation, or in Chicago
that South Clark and South State
streets or the levee district could be
cleaned up to advantage in tie way of
public morals. 1t may be possible that
one Of these days the police authorities
of Wheeling, in moment of temporary
alteration, may locate a rendezvous
for nymphs in the Second or Fifth
wards, or that designation houses
exist.
The New York discovery" how
ever, is particularly humorous. In that
city big blocks of four and five-story
buildings are entirely e.tven over to
.'roomers," and the property is owned
by very respectable people, who re-
oeive the rent money and ask no ques-
tons. The vestibule electric button and
speaking tube afford the wayfaring
man, though stranger, easy access to
vice, while daily and nightly the streets
even on Broadway and Fifth avenue,
0iO ACNSl 1iCC 4AOlA d NldoS pSllOSllN
we'll known to the police, many of
whom receive money for privileges and
immunities accorded. The discovery
that vice exists is the joke of the sea-
son. A more important discovery
would be the ascertaining of the reason
why police authorities do not make
az least a pretense of effort to suppress
it. One way would be to arrest and
Imprisonment fine-owners of real es-
tate who rent or cause to be rented
CHARTERS used for immoral purposes.
and proof of immoral occupancy of
property should be sufficient to con
vict the owner. A law like that would
land quite a number of people behind
hars, and its enforcement would do
more towards purifying American cit
les than all the reform measures to be
Instituted between now and kingdom
come.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-30
Tired of Empire.

St Louis Republic
American officers In the Philippines,
from General Macarthur down, appar-
emily find little satisfaction In the for
eign service Of conquest TO which they
have been detailed by an Imperialist
administration striving for territory
demanded by spirit utterly hostile TO
that OF true Americani5n.
There is something extremely signifi-
cant in the news that General Mac
Arthur, In supreme command in the
Philippines: General Bates. in COM
mand OF Southern Luzon. and General
Grant. doing general field work. have
officially expressed their desire 70 be
relieved from further service In the Far
East
The disgust which has led them 10
request their recall from the front ex-
tends down the line. Only a few
months ago the fact became public
that so many American officers in the
Philippines had rendered their resig
nations that the War Department felt
II necessary TO refuse acceptance Of any
resignation save on authenticated
grounds Of physical disability for fur
tfer active duty.
The requests OF Generals Macarthur.
Bates and Grant for release from serY-
ice in the Philippines mark the climax
OF this spirit Of disgust that has pos
sessed the souls Of officers Of a Republic
who have been compelled 10 fight for
Empire II there va any real Amer
lean glory 10 be gained IN the Philip
pines such men as Macarthur. Bates
ard Grant would be eager for t. But
they are tired OF fighting against lib
eTty. II Is not In their American blood
to relish such hghting.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-30
FIVE MEN DROWNED
by the Foundering of the Auxiliary
Cruiser Yosemite.

Cruiser Yosemite.
MANILA, November 2s-The United
States auxiliary cruiser Yosemite was
wrecked en- November 18th, in a ty-
phoon which swept over the island OF
Guam. After her cables had parted she
drifted on reef near the hafhor OF
San Lais d'Apra and stove in her bot,
tom. A launch was manned by cox
swain. and engineers apprentice, a sea-
man and tive trensa. and an attempt
was made to get aslne ashore, but the
launch was swamped and the five men
We're drowned, After pounding on the
reef for some time. the Yosemite was
blown seaward seventy miles. Before
she sank the collier Justin, which was
stationed at Guam, followed and effect
ed the rescue of all on board.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-30

of the jefferson county Bar to Hon
William H. Frazier, presiding Judge
of the Circuit Court for the Seventh
Judicial Circuit of Ohio. The toast
master will be John NJ. Cook, and re-
sponses will be made by Hon. R. G
Richards, Dio Rogers, Esq, Henry
Gregg, Esq, Hon. ]. H. S. trainer
T. P. Spencer. Esq, and Hon. j. Dun
bar. The menu card reads WELL
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-30

Some of the Republican papers of the
State, notably the Huntington Herald,
are talking about heavy Republican
gains in Wayne county, and predict
that at the next election their party
will carry it. Not in hundred years,
unless by gross fraud. The Democratic
majority in Wayne this year is but Is
less than four years ago, the party vote
increasing 211 over 1896, despite the
use of much Republican money Wayne
is all right
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-30
TO-NIGHT's MEETING.

The gathering of business men, man
nfacturers and citizens generally at the
Opera House this evening, called by
and in the interests Of the new Board
Of Trade. ought to result in an audi
ence testing the capacity of the build
irg.
The committees are ready to report,
and the public should be heard from.
That the people will manifest their ap-
proval of what has been done enthusi-
astically is beyond question. Wheel
ing has needed stirring up, in a bus
mess and manufacturing sense, for
some years past, and the awakening
has come. The plans prepared are
comprehensive, and promise great re-
suits. The start has been well MADE.
II only remains to make persistent and
intelligent advancement along the lines
generally laid down up to date, and
results will follow.
Cancel all other engagements and go
t. the Opera House tonight Your
participation in the movement VIII
yield substantial returns in the future.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-30
President McKinley's neighbors

President McKinley's neighbors in
Washington and friends throughout
the country appear to have provided
for the Executive Thanksgiving dinner
amply and WELL Three forty-pound
turkeys, with crates of cranberries,
oranges, celery, plum buildings, New
England pies, and E'sich fixin's" will
keep the family we'll supplied over next
Sunday.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-30
The New Army Bill.

Louisville Courier-Journal
The Army Bill, now being consid-
cred by the House Committee on Mill
tary Affairs, will provide for a maxi
mum Of $4,000 men and a minimum
of $4,000, with thirty infantry regi-
ments, fifteen cavalry regiments and
a gradual increase of the artillery to
$4,000 men. 1t provides that vacancies
in the staff shall be filed by details
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-30

Regarding American school teachers
and public school principals, it is a
fact beyond controversy that the sal
aries paid are far too small, as a rule,
while the standard of knowledge Is
not sufficiently high. A change for the
better in each of these matters would
materially tend to raise the standard
OF American schools to the correspond
ing benefit of the youth of the land.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-30
FIGURED 1T OUT.

After protracted computation made
with view of ascertaining just what
ratio for the election of Congressman,
under the new census, would best ben
eft the Republican party, the admins
tration has settled upon 194,34 This
will increase the number of Represen-
tatives by twenty-eight, Of which the
Republicans will gain twenty, upon the
basis of the vote recently cast. and the
Democrats eight. Illinois and New
York gain three members each, and
New Jersey and Pennsylvania two
each. About twenty other States,
among them West Virginia, gain one
each, and a couple Of States will lose.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-30
MR.. KRUGER's MOVEMENTS.

PARIS. Nov. 29--Mr. Kruger will
leave here Saturday for Cologne He
will remain at Cologne over Sunday
and rest. On Monday he will 30 to
Maldebourg and thence TO Berlin.
where he expects to arrive on Tues-
day morning.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-30
RESIGNATION.

l..
If that Thou sayest: This is My gracious
Though rough the road may be.
And red with thorns that yet are keen
to kill.
1t is enough for me.
Enough for me! I asked a little
light,
But If this be denied
can toll upward in the lonesome night
If Thou with me abide.
If sometimes on that way, which seems
so lone.
I weep DER affairs dead,
Shall not this thought for all the grief
still by Thy hand I'm led?e
".
Yea, when l shiver. friendless. in a land
To my faint steps unknown.
Through Faith, through Faith l feel Thy
guiding hand
am not all alone.
may reap thorns in lonely gardens
But beam Thy star above.
And even in Life's deserts shasl shine
clear
The lilies of Thy love.
VI.
Stay by BY these naaa steps that faiser' -. we
OF strength, till storms shall cease.
We cling to earth-storms, even when
Thou wouldst lead
To great. Eternal Peace.
FRANK l. STANTON.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-30
SHOT WHILE HUNTING.

Special TO the Register
CADIZ. Ohio, November q Walter
. West. aged %, received load OF shot.
taking effect in hss hip. WINE out hunting
this morning The gun was discharged
by West stumbling and falling upon Il.
Physicians were summoned apd hts com
dillon Is reported critical.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-30
LEAD ORE FOUND.

Valuable Discovery Made by Pros-
pectors In Mason County.
Special TO the Register.
CLIFTON. w. Va. November 29--John
Hannah. a metal prospector of West
Columbia. this county, and Hiram RuH-
sell. II this place, have located a number
of good lead mines in this county. all OF
them being within ten miles OF this
place II is an old Tradition that the In
dams knew Of lead mine IN this vicin-
ity, and Messrs Hannah and Russell. In
few days prospecting. have demonstrate
ed that the story was not unfouuded.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-30

There are about sixteen million pu-
pills in the schools of the United States
las many as Germany, France and
Italy combined and three times the en-
follment of Great Britain and Ireland,
and five times as many as Russia, with
its population of 100000. It's a
record to be proud of.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-30

In New Jersey Mckinley received
221,707 votes, gain of $40 over 1896.
Bryan received 1874, 1908, a gain of 81, 1873.
This is the story throughout the East
and New England. Mckinley only held
his ground, while Bryan made tremen-
dous gains.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-30

Alfred Belt, the richest man in Lon
don or in the world, said to have &C
cumulated 1915 100000, is to try to
corner" the gold of the world,
just as Cecil Rhodes did diamonds
He already controls. the African mines
and is reaching out for the Klondike
and Australia.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-30

1t should be borne in mind that the
proposed Hanna ship subsidy bill runs
for thirty years, at the rate of nine
millions per year, all of which will go
to existing companies. The subsidy bill
is abou. the biggest fraud upon the
public yet proposed
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-30

This morning the Register presents
some interesting facts concerning
the courses in the Correspondence
Schools of Scranton, in which we Of
fer ten free scholarships to the ten
contestants receiving the highest num-
Der of coupon votes. We shall continue
to publish data from day to day until
the public is thoroughly informed of
the merits of this unprecedented offer.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-30

The cruiser Yosemite, bought at the
outbreak Of the Spanish war, and val
ued at 100000. is the second ship OF
the American navy lost in Philippine
seas. Her crew of Is officers and 267
men was saved with the exception of
five seamen
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-30

Parkersburg is preparing itself for a
disappointment when the census figures
are announced Her people should not
be respondent. Parkers3urg is a grow
ing and thriving city, and time will
bring the number OF inhabitants up to
the proper notch. Here in Wheeling
we have learned to labor and to wait.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-30

1t is officially stated that 5000 post
masters resigned last year. The mod
ern postmaster appears to lack in ad-
hesiveness. designations, in the good
CID days, were few and far between.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-30

Texas has passed the three million
mark in population. Some of these days
Texas will be quite State. 1t has
room for twenty million people, with
out anyone being crowded.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-30

In thirteen States. reported off,
cially, casting $780, votes, or al
most one-half the total vote of the
country, Mr.. McKinley's plurality is
5s0,375, a loss from 1896 OF 124,235,
while Mr.. Bryan's gain is 1926
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-30

he was In Congress period of four
teen years. he bought and smoked
$4,000 cigars of one brand, an aver
age of seven per day. To smoke 81
600 cigars of any brand is certainly
a test in several ways.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-30

Coincident with the arrival of the
battleship Kentucky at Smyrna the
Sublime Porte hastens to explain that
it has no vicious intentions regarding
the United States.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-30

Those heather Chinese have an ex-
hibition of their own now open in Lon
don, and among the exhibits is bank
note printed and circulated in 1866, or
three hundred years before the estab-
lishment of the first European bank.
The Chinese may be slow, but they had
an early start in some things.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-30

Somebody up in Boston has been
saying a good word for Nero. This
comes a little late, but better late
than never.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-30
THE STORY CONFIRMED.

WASHINGTON. November 29.-The
Navy Department has received cable
gram confirming the report OF the
wreck OF the cruiser Yosemite of the
island Guam.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-30

In the course of street excavations
at Helena, Mont, rich gold deposits
were found, and tests of the pay dirt
lead old miners to declare that the
earth is rich in precious ore. Helena
was known in the early days as Last
Chance Gulch,' and was the location
OF extensive placer mines.