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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-08-11

sights played upon his deadened facul-
ties as hand plucking stringless harp
At length the ship came in sight of his
native shores, and his fellows left their
hunks and through the open portfolios
gazen eagerly at the green-clad hills. The
boy went with them, but seeing nothing
crept back to bunk and his racking pains.
For then he suffered in body, and his ILL
ness had so transformed him that in the
gloom none knew him.
One day the rushing Of the waters
ceased and the ship lay STILL The other
men left the hold, and the sooty water,
dripping from the deck beams, fell only
upon the boy. Then new stencil, sui
phurous and harsh, crept down the hatch
way, and for a day and night his fee
Die frame was racked with coughing.
After that the sounds that he made in
his misery reached the ears of the men
upon the deck, and the barge next day
carried him ashore with the last detach-
ment, but not of his regiments. They had
gone before him. The sentry who gave
rifle to this wreck of man as he left
the ship gazed mutely at him and turned
away. The army surgeons stared at him.
too, and he stepped ashore, but he was
only one in thousands. and they let him
pass unaccosted
rs he the only one Of his company
lief? 2" asked a woman standing at the
edge of the crowd about the wharf.
Won't some one help him ?''
# a man sprang toward the hoy, but the
stare from those sunken eyes made him
shrink aaSal. On tiaa hax erahsA areet
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urehead on the, throne, a puppet in the

urehead on the throne, a puppet in the
hands of the astute dowager empress.
He Is a son of the seventh Prince
Chung of the house of Tuakwang, and
therefore a nephew Of the late emperor,
Tung Chez. Tung Chez was completely
under the influence of mis- M other, the
second slave-wife of the Emperor TIien-
flung, seventh monarch in the present
dynasty of Using
1t is customary in China for an en-
peror to name his successor. Tung Chez
toward the close Of his SHIRT wild life
named the infant Kwang Su. This was
the empress dowager's choice. She Sc
lected KWang Su as the youngest and
sickliest Of her ,lephews. She had ruled
ner husband, she had ruled her son, she
means to rule a third emperor. The edict
of last January pointed to the conclusion
that she was DESTROYS Of ruling a fourth,
but from what Prince Tuan has shown
of his mettle it seems likely that if his
son ever comes to the throne Of China
Prince Tuan will be desirous Of doing
some ruling on his own account.
But then no one knows that he and the
empress dowager have not been playing
into each others hands. Kwang Su, at
all events, has led miserable life. He
has had no shadow Of ority-not even
Of liberty. When he succeeded to the
throne he was only four years old. From
that moment he was a prisoner in the
imperial palace at Picking. The empress
dowager administered the empire and
nodded her nephew's character to suit
her own plans. - $50 =. 81. 2
It suited her that he should be sicklN
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-08-11

self-indulgent, Of feeble will, given over
to gross pleasures, timorous of RESPONSE
bll1ty, dependent upon her in everything
SO she bert the twig, and so the tree
grew. The emperor of China was a man
kin. His aunt was the ruler of the en-
pire. ~ -,r Az ~ " Il
He has been described as a small, del
1cate, intellectual looking youth, with
large black eyes and a thin, pale face,
His grand tutor for many years was ing
Tung Hoo, a bigoted Chinese mandarin,
strongly opposed to foreigners and West
ern ways. His enforced resignation two
years ago was Immediately followed by
the prescription and flight Of the leaders
of the ''Reformers,'' who had prema-
turely hailed with satisfaction some in
dlcations of imperial intentions to well
come European civilization.
Kwang Su's marriage in 1889 was the
first occasion of fatal Variance between
the young emperor and his aunt the dow
ager. He had chosen the daugh-
ter of high Manchu military
officer, but the empress dowager
had already made match for
him, having chosen her own niece for the
honor, and her will prevailed. The en-
peror submitted. In the edict by which
he appointed Prince lungs son his sue
cessor the emperor-assuming that he
really signed it-referred to the fact that
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-08-11
ST PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS AUGUST II 1900
|PRINCE 1UAN, MAN OF DESTINY IN CHINA

Christendom was first directed to Primo
Tuan. No small curiosity was felt in his
personality, but not much could be
learned about him except that he hated
foreigners. 1t was interpreted as a bad
omen that his son, designated to become
the next emperor of China, was under the
instruction and influence of two intensely
anti-foreign tutors.
1t was learned, Furthermore, that Prince
Iuan was the head of the great secret
societies known as 'Thej Great Sword'
and THE Boxers" which had been. re-
sponsible for the 1nurder of Mr.. Brooks,
the missionary, and the influence Of which
extended over the provinces of Chill,
shangtung and Honan. This was at a.
time when the Boxer anti-foreign move
ment was first beginning to excite
alarm.
One thing more Christendom knows
about Prince Tuan. He is an athlete. He
keeps his body in a condition of perfect
Vigor. He has been enthusiastic in per-
'suadirg the young men Of, China to follow
the same course. This in part accounts
for his influence. Beginning as an ath-
letlc leader, he became; successfully a DO
itical and martial leader The Boxers
were athletes before they became assas-
sins.
AS for the Emperor Kwang Su, he has
never at any time been more than a fig
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-08-11
NINE ENEMY.

NINE ENEMY.
once in my pride I judged a man.
With eyes austere looked him through
l said, Here failed he''-span by span
l measured all his faults anew.
And thenceforth marked in bitter mood
The manner of his life, intent
10 lind therein such constant food
That my just heart might not relent. !"
probed his thoughts, his motives weighed;
And yet as on his hopes I peered
Though some I might have crushed T stavef
My hand-they were so humbly reared
And keeping watch with doubtful eyes
On all his actions, I began =
To mark with meaSureless surprise
How very human was the man!
TIL, by a. casual cross-wind blown. -,
= Came word Of trifling acts of his
Poor common things-in which was shown
His touch with common charities.
Then seeing how much + had denied.
Who loved the name Of Charity,
I bowed; my head with shame and cried.
Forgive me, o mine enemy -
w. G. Hole. in London Spectator.
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when he was appointed successor to
Tung-Chi it was in the expectation that
he would raise up heirs to that monarch.
Nov because Of i'll health am child
less" the edict continued, land have
found it necessary to appoint successor,
Most reluctantly and after much solicsta-
ton on my part the empress dowager has
needed to my request
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/E ~ comes up like thunder outer
~ China 'crost the bay,' there
~ IL is one figure that looms into
W sudden direful prominence
and another that shrinks
Into lamentable and mysterious nothing
ness. The first Of these is Prince Tuan
head Of the Boxer movement. The second
is Kwang Su, the boy emperor of China.
Who is Prince Tuan, and to what end
is he the instrument Of destiny? Where
is the emperor, and is he dead or alive?
These are questions to which all Chris
tendon in arms awaits an answer
Prince ,Tuan is a newcomer on the stage
of international affairs. He is a man of
mystery. Recent terrible developments
point to the conclusion that in China he
Is 'The Man on Horseback
What manner of man is he that COM
mands the hordes who have established
a reign of terror in China? The very mys-
terry enveloping his personality, his ambi-
ton, mis- aims, his intellectual force, adds
to the fascination and the terror that his
name already$ inspires in the civilized
world. Two things about him are certain
He is of royal blood and he would exter-
inmate foreigners. Beyond that all is
darkness. Prince Tuan's watchword-or
the watchword with which he inspires the
fanatical hosts under him-is an inver-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-08-11
HYPN0TISM OF RATTLERS

Tor en-. Iney cont peIong the same
variety as the common kind They're only
from eight to twelve inches long. They have
the fiat head and are lively and spry a. can
be. You take it where they's camp of COW
punchers or something and in the morning you
go out around the wagons outfit and you'n
hear EN- going zip! zip! all through the grasa
every which way. They're deadly as the
others. so they say. I'll never forget once T
was out prospecting and I saw one of those
little chaps scooting along the trail and /
caught him, caught him very easy and car
ried him by the tail all the way into town.
Jolly, but didn't drop him when they told
me he was rattler and poison as he could be!
IT'S funny thing. I've never heard it ex-
planned, anyway, but a snake simply will not
touch or cross a hair rope. You take it out
on the plains and If a Teller is camping he
need not have the least fear of snake bother
ing him if he will only fetch along hair
lariat. You can lay right down on the buffalo
grass, roll your blanket about you, and not
a RATHER would ever touch you If you lay
your lariat in a circle about you. You'll be
perfectly safe. Snakes queer varmints.
Well, I've got to be wiggling for train So
long. "-Boston Correspondence New York Sun
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Faith and Cvc1ono.

y
Chicago Evening Post: .eFaith." .e,d ~.
man In clerical garb, will move mounta 1ns. -
Great maokerel!' exclaimed the Kansas man
ITS worse than CYCLONES. isn't it7'
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-10
OIL NEWS.

Special to the Register.
PARKERSBURG, w. Va, April g.
Negotiations looking to compromise
are pending in the case of the South
Penn Oil Co. VS.. Louis Bennett, OF
Weston, H. p Camden and others, in
volving the ownership of an oil lease
on large tract of land near Weston.
Some years ago the South Penn leas-
cd the property but it is claimed by
the defendants that it forfeited the
lease. Later Bennett Camden and
others leased the property paying a
large bonus.
After they leased the property the
South Penn erected a rig and began to
drill, but Bennett and Camden treated
them as trespassers, sent guards out
to keep them off the property, took
their rig and moved it to another
part of the farm and started to drill
another well. Then the case got into
court and the arguments were to have
been heard to-day by Judge John j.
Jackson on motion to appoint a re-
ceiver, but the case was continued,
pending the negotiations for a com
promise.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-10
THE POST CHECK BILL.

Everyone who has occasion to send
money through the maitland we all
do this more or less frequently-will
look with approving interest upon
the bill prepared by a committee of the
Association of American Advertisers,
now pending in Congress, which aims
to provide cheaper, safer and better
method for the transmission of cash
through the postoffice. The annoy
ances and shortcomings of the present
system are familiar to the public, while
the cost is excessive. The proposed
law provides for the issuance of Unit
ed States Post Check Notes" in de-
nominations of five dollars, two dollars
and one dollar, to replace the entire
issue of money represented by those
amounts, and fifty million dollars
$3.50, 900, 000) in fractional notes, of
fifty, twenty-five, fifteen, ten and five
cent denominations, each note to
contain blank spaces for the name and
duQI0SS vi IllC pdsOO anu LILO Slit1euA l
and that of the person who sends it;
such signature to make it payable at
the postoffice where the payee resides,
and Transforming it into a check on
the United States Government, to be
used the same as a personal check or
the present money order. In lieu Of
the fee for issuing the note. two
cent stamp for notes of 81 or upward,
or one-cent stamp Cor notes of frac-
tional part of dollar, to be affixed
to each note by the person using the
same to transmit it through the mails.
When redeemed, the notes to be re-is-
sued.
This change from the existing system
would doubtless meet with instant pop
ular approval, and is we'll worth a
trial.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-10
The next big event is the eclipse.
HANNA AS A SCAPEGOAT.

Chicago lnter-Ocean, Rep.
Marcus a. Hanna cannot be made a
scapegoat to bear away INTO the wilder
ness of oblivion the sins Of the Puerto
Rico tariff. The decision, announced yes
terday, TO retire him from the chairman
ship of the Republican national commit
tee. seems to the people but another proof
of perverse resolution to DO anything and
everything with the Puerto Rico question
except our plain duty" The great major
ity of Republican voters have no affection
for Mr.. Hanna. They fully recognize his
share of responsibility for the Oxnard bill
On general principles they would be pleas
ed to see Hannaism eliminated from the
party councils. But their personal feel
ings in this case do not and Will not blind
them TO the fact that il Is futile to cas-:
out an evil doer while still clinging to the
evil deed
The American people cannot be deiuded
by such palpabie nalzeshtfts. Their sense
Of Justice and fair play - strong and un-
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-10
REWARDS FOR CONVICTION.

The offering of large rewards for the
arrest and conviction of alleged rob-
bers and murderers ought to be dis
continued, at least as to the "convic-
ton" clause of the contract To offer
some inducement for officers and citi-
zens to take an interest in the arrest Of
one suspected of crime is an undoubt-
ed aid to the enforcement of law, but
when the payment of such reward is
predicated upon the conviction of the
person arrested, the door is opened to
a miscarriage of justice through the
conviction of an innocent party. And
the larger the reward so offered the
greater the danger. Beyond a doubt
many an innocent man has suffered the
extreme penalty of the law because
somebody was determined to obtain
the reward money, and had no qualms
sworn to on behalf of the State, and
jurors cannot always separate the
truth from the false, and rest their YER
dict on the evidence 1t has not been
many years in this community
since two men, now universal
ly believed to be innocent, were
placed in very serious jeopardy of life,
and were actually sent to the peniten-
tiary for the remainder of their ex-
istence, and now we have fresh in
stance of more than suspicious nature
in an adjoining State
Rewards may be offered with pro-
priety for arrests, but let the authori-
ties provide the testimony for the jury
without any inducement in the nature
Of cash consideration for evidence.
That idea is all wrong in principle,
and works badly in practice upon many
occasions.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-10
LET'S HEAR THE EVIDENCE.

In one of his sermons last Sunday,
Rev. DR.. ]. l.. Sooy, of the Fourth
street NJ E. church, discussed the al
legged connection between certain
classes of habitual violators of the
law and the police and Council of the
city, and used some pretty vigorous
language in condemning existing con-
ditions and in urging a change to a
better and higher standard in this re-
gard
The Reverend Doctor has been pa
tient and exhaustive investigator of
the topic of lis very important and
interesting discourse, and it fair TO
presume that his remarks were pred
icated upon facts and evidence suffi-
cient to convince him, and that
through his sermon he hoped to con-
vince others.
Let the public have the facts. If
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-10
DARING ASSERTION.

At a meeting of the Catholic Wo-
mans League at the Masonic Temple,
Chicago, Saturday, the leading address
was delivered by Miss Catherine Cog
gins, the President of the Teachers
Federation. Her topic was: why l
am Single" and in the discussion of
her theme she said:
"Of course, the chief reason for my per-
sisting in a celibate state is that ! have
never had a proposal. l never felt like
taking advantage of the openings offered
by Leap year, and the young men have
apparently felt just the same way in the
other years.
Marriage is lottery and the. fear of
drawing big white blank has kept me
from the orange blossom ceremony. live
a free, untrammeled birdlike life. and
am fairly satisfied with my lot. Besides,
If | chose husband it might deprive some
other trusting heart of a lord, and that
thought would always haunt me.
ITO be entirely serious, 1t is not indis-
pensable for woman to marry nova
days"
These personal "reminiscences and
confessions are open to criticism.
At the outset Miss Goggins says the
chief reason for her remaining single
is that she never had proposal. This
must mean that any proposal from any
sort of a man would have sufficed.
This won't do at ALL The feminine
heart is not to be captured so easily
and nineteenth century homes are not
reared upon so preearious founda-
ton.
Again she says marriage is a lot
terry" If it is, there are many more
prizes than the blanks Miss Goggins
fears. Some married lives are undoubt-
eddy unhappy, and some homes I'M
pleasant, but this number is small in
deed compared with the array upon the
other side. There is, it is true, an ele-
ment of chance and uncertainty in
marriage, but so there is in every
thing humanity undertakes. For
instance, business men are good, SUBJ
stantial, honest, enterprising and care
full citizens, giving their, thought, care,
energy, and best endeavors to the
achievement OF success But careful
enquiry shows that IS per. cent Of the
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-10

dulled They believe our pledges 70 the
Puerto Ricars OF equal blessings and
immunities,' Of zone nag and one des-
tiny should be sacredly kept They hold
that "our plain duty now Is the same as
1t was before any lobby went to Washing
ton. They view the conduct of their repre-
sentatives with undiminished amazement.
They see in such conduct political folly
which may easily result in party suicide
and national dsshonor. In all this they are
conscientious. Hence, in the so-called
Concessions and Compromises which
leave the evil principle of the Oxnard act
untouched, and even in the determination
to throw Mr.. Hanna overheard. they see
nothing but tubs cast to a whale, nothing
but springs to catch woodcocks.'
In vain is the net spread in the sight
of the bird
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-10
West virginia Fields.

Many of the wells completed last
week were small in size or busters,
but the number of those above the
average in size was quite sufficient to
keep UP the interest. The Kanawha
Oil Company secured the best produc-
er during the week when it gave it's
No. 40 on the big Mills tract, in Wet
eel county, shot and turned 1t into
a gusher, it having previously been
an ordinary producer After being
shot on Wednesday, it started at 90
barrels an hour and finished the week
with a production of 100 barrels a
day. 1t is Gordon sand producer,
and the wells producing from that for
nation are good stayers.
The Garner pool, east of Proctor, in
the same county, forged to the front
again with brace of good producers.
The Carter & Trees No. 4 on the John
Higgins farm came in at the rate of
2S5 barrels day, and the South Penn
Company's No. on the Henry Garner
farm is rated at about 100 barrels a
day.
The Wolf Summit field in Harrison
county got its first black eye in the
northeast extension during the week,
when the South Penn Oil Company
completed its wildcat on the D. T..
Martin, a mile in advance, and got a
total failure. The best producers
heretofore have been found in the
northeast extension, and this is the
first well to show that the producing
limits have been reached in that di-
rection. While a single buster need
not necessarily condemn an extension,
If makes the outlook a mile in advance
look anything but promising.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-10

total number of business men fail,
sooner or later. But it is not so OF
marriage, which Miss Goggins appears
to fear SO much. On the contrary, it
is just the reverse, for 50 per cent. OF
marriages are happy, and therefore
successful. Miss Goggins is laboring
under delusion borne of possible dis
appointment and abject hopelessness.
Seriously" she says ''it is not indis-
pensable for woman to marry, nova
days" On. the contrary it is s'indis-
pensable" for reasons so apparent that
they need not be reduced to writing.
Miss Goggins, like a true Chicago
woman, has made a high bid for at
tention and notoriety, but has done
nothing else worth mentioning.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-10
ANOTHER ENGLISH SURPRISE.

The English war Office has been sur
prised this time, and the fact is the
reverse of creditable to those at the
head of the military establishment.
After the battle of Magersfontoin, in
South Africa, an automatic repeating
rife was picked up on ground vacated
by the Beers. 1t was equipped with
ten-round magazine, and after the
first shot the gun works itself, if SO
desired, like a Colt automatic, until
the magazine is empty, when it can be
retllled in a couple of seconds. The
rife is, "a great thing with which to
stop a cavalry charge or infantry as
sault and appears to be pretty COM
mon among the Boer farmers. The
strange thing about it, however, is that
the English war office was ignorant of
the fact that such a rife had been
manufactured and put on the market
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-10
A BERLIN SCANDAL.

Berlin millionaires appear to have
started out to initiate, if not surpass
the wickedness and almost total de-
pravity of a large element of the Eng
lish nobility. The trial has commenc-
ed at the German capital of Stern
berg and Noirdlinger, the formers of
Berlin and the latter Of Stuttgart,
both millionaires, upon the charges of
horrible crimes against morality" A
Berlin telegram says:
'Sternberg is alleged to have sent a
number of the most discriminating wit
nesses to America, and is said to have
spent over a million marks in hush money
Still, there are lis witnesses left. He Of
fered bail in 100000 marks. but the gov
eminent refuses to accept it, and he has
spent months in Jail In the Stuttgart
case there are e,ghty-three witnesses
Both of the defendants are prominent
bankers"
This is about the first occasion OF
the sort known in Berlin, and the re-
sulting social hub-bub is described
as something terrible, for there are
excellent chances that many high in
society will become involved before
the trials are over.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-10
DIED.

RAMP-On Sunday, April Sth, 1900. at
$40 p. M. Lille NJ. youngest daughter of
Henry and the late Mary ]. Ramp.
Funeral notice hereafter.
WHEEL ER-On Saturday. April 7th
1900, at $3.50 p. m. Henrietta Lakin, wife of
c. H. Wheeler, Sr.
Funeral from family residence No 50
Virginia street, Tuesday April 10th, at
1890 o'clock a. m. Friends of the family
are invited to attend. Interment private
OCH-Suddenly. on Monday, April
9th. 1900 at 12:30 O'Clock .. m, Mrs
Amanda L., relict Of the late G.. G. Muir
doch, in her 57th year
Funeral services at the residence of her
niece. Mrs. Jessie Wells. 80 South Broad
way. Notice will be given hereafter.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-10
MOCkerv.

An aged queen sat in palace grand.
A ruler sad at heart, and. pen in hand
A speech she traced unto the august lords
In halls of parliament, and traced she there
Upon the parchment an imperial prayer
That heaven would bless the arms she
sent to fight
God-serving people battling for the Right:
Would smile upon the bearers of the sword
Sent forth to murder servants of the Lord
Who dared defend the homes God gave
them there,
Was ever such a mockery of prayer?
Denver Post.