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The age-herald., 1900-08-02
STORY HAS BEEN TOLD
pr. Morrison Severely Arraigns the Chi
 nese Government

London, August 2.4 a. m,-At last the story of Pekin has been told. Dr. Morri- son, in today's Times, holds up the Chi nese government before the world as guil- ty, and to degree of infamy and duplicitv that exceeds the surmises of its worst de- tractors. In the same dispatch he gives a more hopeful view of the prospects of the besieged than has been expressed bv any or the others who have been heard from.
 simultaneously there comes from the Belgian charge at Shanghai an official statement that the allies are expected to reach Pekin in about a week. they being eighteen miles from Tien Tsin yesterday. Another letter has been received at Tien Tsin from the British Minister, Sir Claude Macdonald, dated July "A, saying: We are surrounded by Imperial troops" he writes, "who are firing on us continu- ously. The enemy is enterprising, but cowardly. We have provisions for about a fortnight, and are eating our ponies.
 "The Chinese government, if there be one, has done nothing whatever to help us. If the Chinese do not press the at tack we can hold out for, say ten days So no time should be lost, if a terrible massa- ere is to be avoided.
 Yet a Shanghai special says that Ii Hung Chang has received decree dated July 2S commanding him to inform the
 
 Consuls that the Ministers were safe on that date. Evidently Sir Claude MacDon- aid was over pessimistic, as Dr. Morrison. under date of July 21, announces the arri- val of supplies. In view of this, it is quite within reason that the edict announcing the safety of the Ministers on the 2Sth Is correct.
 Sir Claudes latest letter. while strong indictment of Chinese government, is not nearly so much so as Dr. Morrison's dis bat nit he perial edicts as authority, declares that as late as July the imperial government urged the Boxers to continue their loyal and patriotic services in exterminating the Christians"
 Explains Marvellous Changes
 He explains those marvellous changes in the Chinese attitude which have so puzzled the world. It appears that all the appeals for intervention, having all the protesta- tions of friendship. have been due entirely to the victories of the allies at Tien Tsin. The ministers at Pekin owe their safety
The age-herald., 1900-08-02
woLOoTT HAS ACCEPTED
Will Go to Italy to Succeed Ambassa-
 dor Draper

Washington, August 1.-Mr. Roger Vol colt has accepted the Presidents tender of the post of Ambassador to Italy, vice Draper, resigned, and his commission as such has been issued.
 MT. Draper's resignation does not take effect for about six weeks, so that the new Ambassador will not assume his office till fall, taking advantage of the intervening time to make flying visit from Paris to the United States.
 It Is said at the State Department that Andrew White, United States Ambassador to Germany, Is returning on leave of ab- sence, which was granted at his own re- quest by the State Department some weeks ago.
The age-herald., 1900-08-02
MUD SLINGING
 AT THE VOTERS And Misrepresentation of Super intendent Abercrombie. REYN0L DS SHOULD BE BEAT The Chief Educator of the State Desires to See Every Democratic Nominee Elected Next Monday-Cir-
 cular That is False
REYNOL DS SHOULD BE BEAT

Clanton, August 1.-(Special. .)-Some days ago very disgraceful circular was pulp lished and circulated in the Fifteenth Sem atorial District in which Major w. R. Oli- yer, candidate for the Senate, was attack ed and his opponent was highly praised. The author of the circular did not sign his name, and has not been found out. It seems that the Populist leaders, being out of argument, resorted to mud-slinging of the worst sort Among other things, this circular stated that Superintendent of Ed ucation Abercrombie had said that Key holds deserved the support of the people. The following letter from MT. Abercrom- bic sheds light on the. anonymous circular. and shows that MT. Reynolds did not SUD- port, while a member of the Legislature, all the measures in aid of the public schools:
 Mir. Abercrombie's Letter
 July 2S. 1900. Hon. Tipton Mullins, Clanton, Ala:
 My Dear Sir-On my return to the office today find your inquiry of July 23. I re- gret that have not received it sooner.
 In reply, permit me to say that did not make the statements as reported in the circular which you enclose.
 In my Jemison address, which was edu- cational and not political, discussed in a non-partisan manner the laws increasing the school fund and providing for the ex- animation of teachers; and. noticing MT. Reynolds in the audience, I stated that he voted for this enactment, and expressed a hope that the next representative from Chiffon County would be good public school mana hope similar to that which I have expressed in nearly every county in the State. Upon an examination of the records, however, find that I was under a misapprehension, and that MT. Reynolds did not vote for all of said laws
 For their votes in favor of the special school tax bill said that members of the Legislature deserved the thanks of the people, but did not bespeak for MT. Rey- holds the support of the people in his can didacy for the State Senate.
 am a Democrat, and desire to see every Democratic nominee elected. To the Demo- cratic party must the people of Alabama look for free school system.
 With high personal regards, I am, yours very truly,
 JOHN w. ABERCROMBIE.
The age-herald., 1900-08-02
CHINA ACTIVE
Trying to Prevent the Forward Move-
 nent On Pekin

Washington, August 1.-The Chinese Inn perial Government is putting forth the most powerful efforts to secure the abandonment of the international movement upon Pekin. The cablegrams received at the State De- partment today from Iii Hung Chang all tend to demonstrate his desire to succor the Ministers at Pekin and deliver them at Tien Tsin if this can be safely effected,
 trusting that in return the international column can be halted. Unquestionably a proper assurance of the safe delivery of the Ministers would have some effect upon the temper of the Powers, and it is pos sible that the United States Government would give ear to overtures in that direc- tion were not the attempt made by the
The age-herald., 1900-08-02
SAFE BLOWN OPEN
Professional Cracksmen Are Operating
 Around Newmarket

Huntsville, August l. - (Special.) - The safe In the depot of the Nashville, Chatta- nooga and St. Louis Railway at Newman ket was blown open by craoksmen last night and $50 in cash secured Bloodhounds rom CoWan, Tenn, were put on the trail but were confused by the tracks of many persons who visited the scene. negro was arrested tonight at Maxwell, Tenn, for alleged connection with the crime
The age-herald., 1900-08-02
Allies Marching on Pekin

Brussels, August I'M. de Favereau, Minister of Foreign Affairs, has received the following dispatch, dated Shanghai, August l, from M de Cartier de March ienne, Secretary of the Belgian Legation, now acting as charge daffaires of Belgium at Shanghai:
 The allies are marching on Pekin. They are eighteen miles from Tien Tsin, and should reach Pekin in eight days
 All the Europeans have taken refuge in the inner enclosure of the imperial city,"
The age-herald., 1900-08-02
GERMAN AMERICANS
 TO VOTE FOR BRYAN
Correspondent Who Was Formerly Republican Says
 Germans Violently Oppose Imperialism.

that his relations with Golden are now un- friendly. Colonel Hendrick insisted that the witness tell from he expected to get the 5000 to pay Golden to leave the State, but the witness gave no direct answer He admitted that he had conferred with the defendant in jail here frequently. While this matter was under investigation the court adjourned until tomorrow.
The age-herald., 1900-08-02
HOYT RELEASED
Will Not be Confined in Retreat for the
 Insane

Hartford, Conn.,, August 1.-The decision of Judge Freeman of the Probate Court in the case of Charles H. Hoyt, the play wright, was announced today. MT. Hoyt is released from the retreat of the insane, where he was confined on condition that he be placed under the care of physician selected by his friends and that guardian be appointed.
The age-herald., 1900-08-02
smi, !, ana Me Reever Matched

Detroit, Mich, August 1.-Mysterious Billy Smith and Charley McReever have been matched to fight fifteen rounds before the Cadallic Athletic Club of this city on August 10 for purse of s1,5O0
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n M YOU expect to be successful during the A year 1900 you must talk to the people. Advertisers will find The Age Herald ~s useful speakin g-ttibe-it reaches all the people every day in the year.
The age-herald., 1900-08-02

FOR ALABAMA-PARTLY CLOUDY THURSDAY AND FRIDAY; LIGHT TO FRESH NORTHERLY WINDS.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-03-28


REED, MCKINLEY AND THE TRUSTS.
The administration press gleefu1ly
announces that Tom Reeds law firm in
New York was given the task of look
ing after the legal end of the forma-
ton of the American Sheet Steel Trust.
Thus the administration press be-
lieves it has daubed ex-Speaker Reed
with the trust stick and made him
quite as black as Mr.. Mckinley, him
self.
But the people will be inclined to
draw a distinction between what a
lawyer does in the way of business
for his firm and what a President of
the United States does as President.
With Mr.. Reed the drawing up of the
papers in the sheet steel combine by
his firm was purely a matter of bust
ness, but what Mr.. Mckinley has done
for the trusts has been purely a mat
ter of deliberate choice and design
against the best interests of the Ameri-
can people and to serve the political
and personal ambition of William Nc
Kinley.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-03-28
OHIO COUNTY'S UNJUST ASSESS
MENT

Elsewhere in this mornings Regis
ter will be found a comparative state
ment of the valuation Of real estate
in West Virginia for 1899 and 1900.
Every citizen of Ohio county should
study this table carefully. 1t reveals
some astonishing figures, which be-
yond question are grossly wrong and
unjust to the property owners of Ohio
county. According to this statement
Of the State Assessors Ohio county's
valuation has increased from $780,
80 in 1890 to s19, 942, 649 in 1900, or
$3,772,3 $50. or an average of POPS per
cent for the city and 1851 for the
country districts.
What has occurred to account for this
increase during the past decade is of
course not stated. The bare figures
of the assessors, who, by the way,
worked under the able guidance of the
Board of County Commissioners,
is all the data that we have
and they show that the assess
ment here has been raised until the
taxpayers of Ohio county must pay
something like one-fifth of the entire
taxes of the State, although the small
est of the ifty-five counties with two
exceptions.
The past ten years have witnessed
nothing like such increase in the value
of property in Ohio county. This per-
iod has been one largely of panic and
depression and falling prices Of real
estate. Only now are we beginning to
recover from the disastrous panics or
1893 and 1896. 1t is absurd to suppose
that property values have increased
anything like $3,772,S $3.50 during this
period.
Barring those counties in which
there has been extraordinary develop
ment in oil or mining, causing the sud-
den inflow of wealth and population
and the building of many new towns,
creating values where none existed be-
lOIS, tuS luCISdSS III OulO Guilty 5 as
sessment is by long odds the greatest
in the State, being, as stated. about
one-fifth of the total assessed value of
property in the entire State. Mean
while, eighteen counties show a de-
creased valuation ranging all the way
from 0.19 per cent. in Jackson to 17.01
in Hampshire.
When we take into consideration
the fact that Ohio county's assess
ment for 1890 was too high by at least
ten per cent. this additional increase
of from 20.26 to 1881 over the 1890
figures reveals a manifest injustice.
While it has long been a standing
charge that the State at large gives
Ohio county a maximum OF taxation
with a minimum of benefit or service
for it, 1t Is probably not altogether
the fault of the State officials. It us
notorious that the State a~ssessofs
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-03-28
AN APOLOGY.

An amusing climax to the Anglo
American alliance, cor understanding,
if you please as Brummagen Joe put
it, is Lord S%alisbury's apology to Wash
ington for the opening of the official
mail of the United States government
by the British authorities in South At
rica-an act unheard of in the history
of international intercourse between
friendly nations in wal or peace.
This is an excellent sample of En-
glish diplomacy and English methods.
When the British lion wants something
he simply takes it if he thinks he is
strong enough to hold it and explains
and apologies afterwards. When a
cargo of American flour was seized in
Delagoa Bay by a British man-of-war
the -four was not permitted to reach
it's destination and the only redress the
United States got in answer to it's half
hearted protests was an explanation
and apology-which cost nothing.
OF course, Mr.. McKinley's British
State Department at Washington halls
Salisbury's apology for the gross out
rage committed by the British censo
in South Africa in opening the official
mail of the American consul to Pre-
| toria, as satisfactory and a virtual VIC
tory and hastens to announce that the
! Macrum incident is closed" in which
"a the wish is father to the thought.
At this stage of the proceedings, when
eX-Consul Macrum was about to testi-
fly before the Foreign Affairs Commit
tee to substantiate his charges against
the State Department this apology" of
Lord Salisbury CLOSING the Macrum
incident" comes in mighty handy for
the second term syndicate.
The incident is still open, however,
so far as the American people are con-
cerned. Salisbury's apology admits
what the State Department at Wash
ington has steadily refused to admit,
namely that the official mail of the
United States was opened unwarrant-
eddy by the British authorities.
While the State Department 4 be
satisfied with a curt apology the peo-
pie would like a little better under
standing of the situation.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-03-28

were largely under the guidance of the
Board Of County Commissioners.
whose members it has been charged
coached the assessors as to the chang
es to be made in the valuation, in spite
of the fact that the Board of Commits
sioners was to sit in Judgment on the
assessors work-in this case largely
it's owni
The explanation of this peculiar
state of affairs. which will cost the
taxpayers of this county thousands of
dollars, is found in the needs of the
county and city ring, which desires
more of the peoples money to spend
in increased salaries and the creation
of more Offices for the faithful. The
late refunding scheme to permit the
ring to squander the money we are
now paying IN the city debt was n
attempt to raise the wind which the
Register-for the second time
defeated. The increase of the
taxable valuation of property ov-
er SO, o $1,000 is a scheme OF
similar character. The State valua-
ton is the basis also of city and
county taxation and thus the ring,
which dare not again increase the tax
rate, may yet succeed in gouging more
money out of the taxpayer.
1t is a trick Ohio county property
owners are not likely to forget, for it
must be borne in mind that this valua-
ton must stand for ten years to come,
at the end of which period there must
be another valuation and probably an
other increase on the basis of these
false figures.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-03-28

continue to give the police more Or less
trouble.
Those persons who can see q moral IN
a-nything-even a dog fight, profess to see
a great moral in Sappho. Mrs Langtry
and the theatrical profession generally can
see a great blazing moral through the en-
tire play and they commiserate with
Netherso1e-the inventor of the long drawn
out blistering kiss. 1t Is doubtful II a
class of persons who dodge polygamy by
being divorced and remarked several
times a year, are competent judges when
questions of morals are involved.
French writers, sympathetic. of course,
also see a great moral In the ~story-but it
| seems tina the majority of French writers
| are unable to discover a moral in anything
| unless gangrene and putrefaction has set
in. /. 1t appears that they have the faculty
of seeing strange beauties in social filth
and moral degradation.
French writers object to the valuation
placed upon the moral character OF the
men and women of the world at large.
But what oculd be expected? They have
given US Manon Lescant, immeasurably
the best novel of its class; they have
given US Camille: they have given US
| Maria, the nave given US ~Sappho-al OF
which weave a web of romano around
immortality. All the frail and feeble CHAR
acters of vice and passion introduced on
men and women of France. These books
have been read by millions. con-
clusion is usually drawn, other than that
they are but types of the general and pre-
vailing character of the French people?
There can be no doubt of course, but tnat
this conclusion is wrong-yet 1t Is the one
that these writer's unintentionally convey
These books are not written to point out
a moral or serve as a warning. They al
most ennoble vice and the tendency would
be rather to lead astray. Many poor silly
creatures might be more desirous to
emulate than to avoid the examples gwen.
They would bask in the Babylonian fire
only to shrivel and perish.
This particular age, 1t seems, Graves
fiction and fact that is leprous and ulcer
ated- A novel that is pustulated with i'm
moral blotches is certain of success. A play
that is saturated with refined vulgarity
will be greeted with crowded houses.
Authors, publishers and managers know
this. We are treated to this rot because 1t
seems that we like it; proving hat we are
yet crude, vulgar, unredned and but par
TALLY civilized.
Perhaps the most widely read book dur
ing these pleasant and self-sacr.icing days
of Lent, will be Sappho. AND If the pres
ent drift of affairs continues, We may
| expect ere long to see properly staged and
| presented in due dramatic form that
unique collection of great moral stories
Boccaccio's Decameron.
BARON JONES.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-03-28

Philadelphia has begun to dream of
a ship canal from the Delaware straight
through the State of New Jersey to the
sea. This would be a vast feat of en-
cheering, but by no e impossible
of execution if the Quaker City can
keep awake long enough to push it.
By this means Philadelphia would
again become a seaport of great i'm
portance. The project would not cost
as much as New York's proposed $685.
coo, 900 underground railway by $4,000
600, and it would be many times more
profitable to the trade and city of
Philadelphia.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-03-28
SAPPHO, ANCIENT AND MODERN

The original Sappho was a poet of pas
sion. She was the Ella Wheeler Wilcox of
ancient Greece. Failing to allure the
beautiful Phaon into matrimony she turn
ed a somersault off the Leucadian cliffs
into the sea. Some of Sappho's poems,
putative perhaps, have been preserved.
They were written apparently at a high
degree Of temperature.
Byron mentions her as the burning
Sappho," and that she was filed with
Immortal fire" From this we may rea-
sonably infer that the original Sappho was
pretty hot stuff.
The Sappho of Daudet is another com
bustible, burning creature that needed the
attention of the fire department. She did
not write poetry and thrum upon a harp
as did the elder Sappho. Instead she
smoked cigarettes necessarily, and with
her saffron tipped fingers occasionally beat
a tune from the piano. The intensity of
her love was something remarkable. The
number of times that she was devotedly
and undyingly attached to various persons
is not clearly shown. Her love was of
that glorified kind that leads to divorce. the
destruction of the Ten Commandments.
suicide, murder, and a term in the peni-
tertiary.
Daudet's Sappho was Fanny Legrand.
an ancient and well preserved, fair and
blowsy blonde h evidently used perox-
ide of hydrogen-for in one instance we
find her with brown hair, and later it is
golden.
She falls desperately in love with a hot
blooded, stupid young chump from South
ern France. named Jean Gaussin-although
she is more than old enough to be his
mother.
1t was a case of love at first sight. They
met at a fancy ball, then drove to Jeans
quarters. where he carried her up three
flights of stairs. She must have been over
ly fat, for Jean was at the point of abso-
Lutte exhaustion when he reached his quar-
tiers. This was the beginning of a mar
riage wherein there was neither license,
priest nor preacher.
Daudet's novel-whose presentation in
dramatized form has created such a
furore-is but a diary recording the inc.-
dents of the immora relations of Jean and
Sappho. 1t introduces US to aged liber-
tines and dissolute women. With the ex-
ception of Gaussin's relations to the pure
souled Divonne, there Is not a decent
character in the whole book. It is a vul-
gar tale from beginning to fnish-but well
told. The excellence OF the work is due
to the genius of Daudet-not to the story
itself. Daudet could AXE ALLEY c. and
clothe it with a glamour OF omance
beautiful imagery that would make 1t al
most ~glorious-but stiu Alley G., would
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-03-28
DIED.

BAYHA-In New York City, Monday.
March 18th, 1909, G.. Eugene, son of Louis
j. and Mary NJ. Bayha.
Funeral services at residence Of parents,
II South Broadway, Thursday afternoon at
2 o'clock. Interment private at Greenwood
cemetery.
HATHAWAY-At the residence of Ed.
Boutwell,. No. 1876 Main street, on Monday,
March 26th, 1900, at 9:20 p: m, Jane p.
Hathaway, relict of the late Zach II. Hath
away, in the SD year of her age.
Funeral will take place this (Wednes-
day) afternoon at 1870 o'clock. Interment
Stone Church cemetery. Friends of the
family invited to attend. Please omit
lowers.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-03-28

pealing to the national administration
for aid to escape justice, which is hot
OF their trail. But Secretary Root,
who is not only the Secretary of War,
but the lawyer for the administration,
declares there is absolutely no ground
on which the national government can
interfere.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-03-28
DELEGATE

AT a meetipg of the Democratic State
Executive Committee of West Virginia,
held at Charleston, on the 18th day of jan
uary, 1900. it was ordered that the twelve
delegates to which the State of West Vir-
ginia is entitled in the next Democratic
National Convention Ito be held at Kansas
City, Mo-, on the 4th day of July. 1900, to
nominate candidates for President and Vice
as follows:
The Democrats in each county in the
state shall appoint at such time and place,
and in such manner as the Democratic Ex-
termine, Delegates to the Congressional
District Conventions to be held in each OF
the founr Congressional Districts of the
State or the
10th Day of May, 1900,
at the following places:
In the First Congressional District, at
Clarksburg, in the County of Harrison; in
Charles Town, in the County of Jefferson;
in the Third Congressional District, at
Charleston, in the County of Kanawha; in
the Fourth Congressional District, at Point
Each of said Congressional District Con-
ventions shall appoint one Delegate-at-
Large, and one alternate therefor, and two
District Delegates, and two alternates
West Virginia in said National Convention:
The basis of representation in each or
said Congressional District Conventions
Will be one vote for each one hundred
for w. j. Bryan for President, at the No
Vember election of 1896, and each county
IS requested to appoint such number or
Delegates to each Congressional District
Convention as is equal to the number of
votes 1t may be entitledtto by the above
basis of representation.
ADREW JOHNSTON, Chairman.
WILLIAM A. OHLEY, Secretary.