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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-28
N ANNUAL MEETING
Of the American Jewish Historical
Society in Session.

Society in Session.
PHILADELPHIA, December 81
The ninth annual meeting of the
American Jewish Historical Society
was held here last night. Many inter
esting papers were read, among them
the following:
antonio Montizinos and the theory
that the American Indians are the lost
ten tribes of Israeli by Max ]. Koh-
Ter, New York; THE early Jewish set
Element at Lancaster, Pa" by Henry
N~ecarsulmer, of New York; THE MIS-
tory of the first Russian-American
congregation" by j. D. Eizenstein, OF
New York; "a sketch Of the Jews OF
Georgia prior to 1900, and a prominent
Jewish soldier of the war of 1872" by
Leon Hummer, of New York; THE
%martyrdom of the family of Don Luis
de Carabajai in Mexico at the end of
the sixteenth century" by the Rev.
George A. Kohut, of New York.
These officers were elected:
President, DR.. Cyrus Adler, of New
York.
Vice presidents, Hon. Simon w.
Rosendale, of New York; Mendes Co
hen, of Baltimore; Rev. DR.. B. Felsen-
thai.
Corresponding secretary, DR.. Herbert
Friedenwald.
Recording secretary, Max j. Kohler.
Treasurer, Prof. Richard Gottheil.
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THE STATE UNIVERSITY
Is Warmly Defended by Judge okey
Johnson.
M0RGANT0WN w Na nnn Ok

Is Warmly Defended by Judge okey
Johnson.
MORGANTOWN, w. Va, Dec. 25.
To the Editor of the Register.
Sir: l read with much regret in your
Sunday Register of December 23d, 1900,
an editorial on The State University
which declares lit is very much to the
shame and discredit to our State that
the University at Morgantown should
have fallen into the hands of the polit-
ical spoilsmen and degenerated into a
mere vehicle for the promotion OF
partisanship." If this were rue it
would indeed be a shame. and the Uni
versity would suffer in numbers and
e~fnclency; and the taxpayers, many of
them, would not only be wronged, but
the effect on the institution, which is
the pride of the State, would be most
disastrous. But the charge is not true.
Mr.. Editor, and you have been misled
by false representation of the facts.
1t is well known that among the Pro-
fessors the Board was asked to remove
last spring n was a Republican. None
were then removed. If the Board had
for partisan purposes intended to ben
Gil d patty ny the removal OF n OF
the faculty, it would have done it, be-
fore the recent campaign opened, if
it had been supposed such action would
have benefited a party. This Board
has SO far as l can ascertain, never
divided in a single vote on partisan
lines.
The reason | write this note is to cor
rect an error into which you have been
led, know that of the new Professors
brought here under the present admin
istration, a number of them are of the
party opposite to that of a majority
of the Board. They are Democrats,
Populists and Republicans. The Pres
ident Of the University, in none of his
acts, has been influenced by party con-
siderations. / don't want the erron-
eous charge, unc%ontradicted, to go
forth that the Board of Regents have
so far forgotten their sacred trust as
to make professorships in the State
University the reward for party SER
vice, for such is not the fact. Ger
tainly, the new Professors, who have
come here from Yale and Harvard and
other great institutions, have rendered
no party service in this State, for
which they were rewarded by positions
here. Yours truly,
OKEY JOHNSON.
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A fortune awaits the genius who will
invent a non-inflammable Christmas
tree for general use.
HAzED OR NOT HAzED.

The investigation into the Booz case
still drags its slow length along.
Either the cadets have nothing to tell
regarding the brutality alleged to ac-
company hazing, and especially that
which is alleged to have characterized
the hazing of the dead cadet, or they
have a remarkable way of sticking to-
gether and keeping mum as to what
they regard their mutual interests and
traditions
These young officers that Uncle Sam
is training for his army ought tt be
fine specimens Of young American
manhood, and as a rule probably they
are. No. one objects to their college
traditions so long as they are
not carried out in a manner
to interfere with the rights of
students. But brutal hazing, such as
is alleged to have been administered
to Cadet Booz should be forever stamp
ed out. While a certain latitude, well
understood by the officials, is to be
allowed to high spirited youth there
is nothing conducive to development
of character or to manliness in brutal
ity and cruelty.
The cadets to a man, so far as heard
from, declare that their college Gus
toms ara free from thaco ,oh;oo+;oon
1t is to be hoped so. 1t is the duty of
the court of inquiry to find out ii it
is SO, and if it is not to administer
such punishment as will insure a bet, err
state OF things at the government mill
tary academy in future. Other col
loges would do we'll to take the hint.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-28

minority Of the committee favored the
resembling OF the license for the place.
but the majority refused to rescind.
During the discussion some of those
who favored the Resembling OF the
license were openly accused in the
council of alleged selling of liquors at
their places of business, and the as
sertion was made that councilman
had himself been touched at the resort
and dared not vote to rescind the
license.
Gut of the general mix-up of police
and councilmen the public hopes there
may be an Improvement in the situa-
ton and that part of the ~lawlessness
which is making the city notorious
may be stopped.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-28
A Cute Board.

Fairmont index.
After Nicely got after the President
and Board Of Regents of the Univer-
sity for suspending him without cause.
and while his case was pending before
Judge Mason, the Board quietly rein
stated him. There seems to be nothing
left for him to do but to withdraw his
application for the writ, but it is unfor-
tunate that our Court will not pass
upon a question so important to every
young man in the State. That is a
State institution supported by taxes
upon all of the people. and while the
rights Of the students have been de-
fined in other States our Courts have
not passed upon the question.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-28

NEW YORK, December 27.-The
United States torpedo boat Ericsson
sailed for Hampton Roads to-day.
She will be one of the torpedo heet
which, accompanied by the battleshiD
Alabama, will shortly sail to join the
North Atlantic squadron on its annual
winter cruise in the tropics. The flag
ship Kearsarge and the Massachusetts
sailed from Hampton Roads Saturday
for Pensacola, and the rendezvous will
be somewhere in the gulf.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-28
THE VITAL ISSUE.

The Parkersburg Sentinel delivers
itself in this succinct and vigorous
manner:
If the manufacturers of the United
States can sell their products In Europe
and Asia cheaper than the European man
ufacturers. will some wise man OF the
east tell us why we need a protective tar
if in this country to protect our nome
manufacturers from being undersold IN
the home markets by foreign manufactur-
ers?.
Il the statements be true that we are
selling IRON and steel in England, Russia,
Japan and Egypt, then why do We need
q tariff to prevent English manufacturers
from sending their goods here? One or
Two t aone sfatemen IS t dnaV4 we are u nntaTr
selling the foreign markets are lies, or
that the tariff is, a straight up and down
gteal The latter is probably the truth
1t is the truth about it so far as the
great American trust has to do with
the matter, and the trust has to do
with it all along the line of American
industry.
The trust is the worst kind of plum
derer, for it plumbers only its W peo-
ple-its own supporters. 1t plumbers
them to the extent of it's ability to
force prices up to the tariff limit, be-
yond which foreign competition would
intervene, and at the same time it sells
to the foreign consumer at prices which
the trusts competitors abroad cannot
touch even in their own home mar
kets.
Abolish the trust and the tariff will
abolish itself or lapse. into %innocuous
desuetude. On the other hand, it is
true that a judicious pruning of the
tariff would deprive the trust of much
of it's opportunity to plumber.
But the head and center of the evil
is the trust: And the natural, sworn
and inveterate enemy of. the trust is
the Democratic party. In the near
future the Democracy will prove that
in the end the people are more power
full than trustJbought influence. De-
feats thus far count nothing. 1t is a
battle to the death between Plutocracy
and Democracy. That is the vital is
sue. And should Democracy finally
succumb in the fight there will end
free government.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-28

1t shows a queer condition of things
when the government is forced to paw
a large bounty to soldiers in order 20
get them to stay III the Philippines.
And to think that in addition to she
vast sum these islands have thus far
cost us we paid Spain $40, 600, 900 for
the privilege of Kidding her of a costly
burdent
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-28

PHILADELPHIA. Pa, December ~
Teachers Association began here to-day
and the sessions viii continue until FRI
day. The nominations for officers were
made to-day. as follows: Il. A. Berg, OF
Reading, president; Edmund Wolsieffer,
secretary and treasurer; executive COM
mittee. William Benbow. O. III. Unger and
II. L.. Fulmer. IT was decided to hold the
December &c. z and Is. 1851. The secre-
tary's report stated hat the membership
roll contained FIVE hundred names and
that nearly every county in the State is
repreSented.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-28

Smallpox is de~populatinS the Lumbar
camps Of Minnesota, the woodsmen
fleeing in all directions. The trouble
with the occupants of these lumber
camps is that they have a lordly disre-
gard of the decencies of civilization
and the rules laid down by the health
officers and thus fall easy victims to
filth diseases when their natural en-
vironment and occupation should make
them the healthiest people in the
world.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-28
THE UNIVERSITY.
Should Arouse indignation.

ShOUIu AfOUse IhUISnntIOm.
Fairmont Index.
We are glad that the true situation
at the University is being made clear
to the citizens of our State. The re-
cent action of the Board of Regents
in summarily bouncing two Professors
without a hearing has disguised both
Republicans and Democrats alike, and
we miss our guess if it does not arouse
public indignation to that extent that
those responsible will have to go. Let
the boys of the press turn on all of the
light possible. We will have to get rid
of Raymondism or lose our University.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-28

Senior Fontela of the Philippines and
lately Aguinaldo's adviser, who has
arrived in New York, remarks that
he has come to the United States to
escape slavery under the American
rule in the Philippines. The point of
his sarcasm is that he prefers Ameri-
can rule within the Constitution to
the same rule outside" that instru-
ment.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-28
SMALL RUN ON N
As a Result of the Old Town Trouble
at Baltimore.

AS a Result of the Old Town Trouble
at Baltimore.
BALTIMORE. December 27.-The eff
feet of the embarrassment of the Old
Town Bank, for which a receiver was
appointed late yesterday. was felt in.
all the savings banks of the city to day.
Throngs Of depositors were lined up
before the doors. The demands in all
cases were promptly complied With.
BY noon the crowds that had sur
rounded the banks in the early morn
ing hours had been accommodated and
left, and thereafter the banks took on,
apparently, their every day business
appearance.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-28
Nobody Paid Id Yet.

CONSTANTINoPLE. Wednesday, De-
cember 26.-It is the general belief that
the Cramps contract for the construction
Of a cruiser for Turkey was signed with
out the first payment being made This
view Is supported by the fact that the
Porte has formally promised to pay MOTH
ing to Americans before paying the
Krupps. and the Germans have not yet
received ANYTHING.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-28
VERY BAD BREAK
On the Part Of Mrs. Carrie Nation,
Who Raided 81 saloon.

On the Fart OF MRS. Carrie Nation,
Who Raided 81 saloon.
WICHITA, Kans, December 2l.-
Mrs. Carrie Nation, president of the
Barbour County w. G. T. g., entered
the Carey Hotel bar roo to-day, and
with a stone smashed a 5000 painting
and a mirror valued at 800.
Mrs. Nation broke mirrors in two sa-
looms in Kiowa, Kansas, some mouths
ago, and declared there is no law un-
der which she car be prosecuted. She
was lodged in the county Jail this
afternoon, charged with malicious
destruction OF property.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-28

Another sensational kidnapping.
This time, however, a mother stole her
own Let us hope that child-stealing
will not become epidemic. Children
are mighty precious to the owners
thereof.
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in more or less justifiable profanity
as they sought and finally coralled the
brutes.

Every now and then a Democrat in
some sections arises to denounce GER
tain sepulchral u~tterances that recently
have issued from the tomb of the late
Grover Cleveland. But what's the sense
in it? Let the dead rest!
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-28
unnhanme nenuesf.

quest OF 10000 has been placed In the
hands Of the directors Of the Eew Jersey
training school for feeble minded chill
dren at this place. by Taos. ~ Winter,
acy will pay or all obligations and give
the institution a cash balance Of about
$50 D9.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-28

The basketball referee seems to
have little the best of the base ball
umpire. In Trenton the other day the
referee was mobbed by the players and
audience and so roughly handled that
the police had to escort him to the
railroad station. This is sp ,r. with a
vengeance.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-28
wakes . DeninI.

WASHINGTON. d. c.. December II
Mr.. A. E. Frye. the superintendent Of ed
ucatton Of Cuba. has teiegraphed the War
Department a sweeping denial OF tho
published story to the effect that he Is
sued a circular or proclamation In Ha-
van advising the cuban to proceed to
drive the Americans out Of the island.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-28
HANxA,s MIssrArEMExrs

Senator Hanna has been cornerei
in n or tive very broad misstate-
ments OF fact in connection with his
pet steamship subsidy scheme. In
stating that each OF the four large
vessels of the American line would re-
ceive $4,000 in bounty zach year he
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-28

PHILADELPHIA pa. December r.
J. @. searies. general freight agent OF
the Pennsylvania Railroad ompany an
n0lnced to-day that on and after jan
uary ], 1901. coke freight rates from the
Conceivable X regions east viii be re-
duced thirty cents a ton. The present
rate TO philadelphia IS IS per ton or 100
ra4udu
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-28
STANDS BY THE STORY.
Russia Is to Fake over Ii Manchu-
ria Railroad

ria Railroad,
ST. PETERSBURG, December 27.--
The Novoye Vremya's Vladivostock
correspondent stands by the story that
the Russian government is about TO
take e the Manchurian railroads.
He says Commander Keller has left
Vladivostock to formally deliver the
roads to the governments representa-
tive. The correspondent also says the
Chinese caused losses amounting TO
only four miilIon roubles.
The arrival of larger or smaller
bodies of soldiers from China is an
nounced almost daily from southern
ports.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-28

The veracious editors of Parkers-
burg declare that "at least 4,0007 people
OF that city were not counted in the
census Where on earth did they
hide?
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-28

WASHINGTON, December 27.-To-
days statement of the treasury bal
ances in the general fund, exclusive of
the $3.50, 000, GOO gold reserve in the di-
vision of redemption, shows: Available
cash balance, s142,29 ,252; gold, $685.
194164.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-28

ALL HAIL, TWENTIETH CENTURY !
When Father Time sweeps over the
United States along about midnight
next Monday he will be in no danger
of forgetting that a new century is be-
ing ushered in. From ocean to ocean
every American community is prepar-
ing to strain it's resources in celebrat-
ing the event in a whoop-la and hilar-
ious fashion.
In all the great cities the celebra-
ton will be gorgeous. In staid old
Philadelphia, which, however, can lead
the van on occasion when it ome to
a jamboree, will wake up and welcome
the Twentieth Century by a unique
and magnificent pageant, decking her
self and her massive public buildings
in a blaze of electricity, the grounds
around to be transformed into a fairy
electric forest.
All over this broad land there will
be such an uproarious j%ollifcation as
never was before in this or any other
country.
And don't forget that solid old
Wheeling will be right there.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-28

In a New York Bowery theatre fire
a woman refused to be rescued until
her pet dogs were saved. Which
caused the heroic fremen to indulge
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-28

THE DANCE.

I see you there in your spangles-
Full in my wondering glance;
Your cheeks are red
AS the grapes blood shed
In the far-off vineyards where youth lies
dead.
What was it now that the playbills said?
But the lights-the lights are binding,
And the music seems a moan.
Seeing you there.
In the gloom and the glare.
With the varying lights on your beautiful
hair,
Do you think do you feel. do you know.
do YOU care
For one in the darkness alone?
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-28

What a political paradise this
try would be if politicians generally
sized UP to Mr.. Bryan's idea expressed
in these words at the Lincoln Jefferso-
nian banquet: .
The holding of public office should be
an incident and rot the extreme aim of
the citizen. 1t should not be an end, but
the means for the accomplishment of a
purpose"
Unfortunately oficeholding is too Of
ten the alpha and omega of the poll
tician and patriotism and the public
welfare the incidentals.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-28

Special to the Register.
FAIRMONT. ". Va. December ia
two-story frame building on Market
street, owned b. DR.. Jamison, Ode ard
Robert White, wa almost destroyed by
IRE this eveafng Valued ~ n5o0s II
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-28

In these holiday times of merry
making and feasting the wealthy can
not be said to have it quite all their
own way. Many a millionaire dys-
peptic would give his wealth for such
a stomach as is possessed by those
ragged urchins who in various cities
were fed by the thousand with tons Of
food. The rich have the viands, the
poor the appetites and each would will
lingly make exchange. After all. che
desirable things of this life are not SO
~unequally distributed. COO
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-28

Now that New York hos a new dis
trict attorney and the likelihood of i
new chief of police, a sudden spasm If
virtue has struck the metropolis. The
dives shut up tight. This will last
maybe for a week or two, and then it
is safe to say that the devil will re-
sumo business in the metropolis at the
old stand. 1t is only now and then
to take in his horns to prevent them
being damaged in the periodical
spasm of virtue that clutches the
metropolis.
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runs against the statement Of Mr..
Clyde, himself q Sember Of Mr.. Ham
mas COMMITTEES and an owner Of for
eign trading vessels, who states that
the bounty of each Of said ships would
be $3O4.29O. Mr.. Clyde has practical
knowledge. of the subject and is more
apt to be correct than Mr.. Hanna.
But this is by no means the most
glaring of Mr.. Hanna's misstatements.
He stated fatty that the vessels of the
Cunard and White Star lines receive
more in bounty from the British gov
eminent for carrying the mails to
New York than his four vessels would
receive under this subsidy bill.
The truth is, as shown by the reports
of the British postmaster general, that
the Cunard line receives but SIS, 600
and the White Star but $500 for the
year. In fact, Great Britain paid alto
gether but $685., 400 to ALL vessels car
rying mails to New York in the same
time, including the Cunard and White
Star lines. And according to Mr..
Hanna's own figures the amount under
his subsidy bill would be 81, 160, 900, and
according to Mr.. Clyde $1,217,200
A disinterested patriot such a. Mr..
Hanna ought to be more accurate than
this in dealing with a matter involv-
ing the expenditure of so vast q sum
of the peoples money.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-28

l see YOU there in your ~spangles-
A rainbow of purple and red.
A crech of the bands
AND a ciapping of hands.
And vour SOIL is aflame in enchanted,
fair lands.
Does that soul understand, as my soul
understands.
You are dancing over the dead?
Beware of the pits wild clamor.
OF the shower of roses sweet!
For q phantom face
Is in the place!
shall see il. too. by God His graceD
1t is there. It is therei where your mad
A grave is under your feet.
The lights-the lights are darkened.
Well did you MAY your part:
But l know-I know
That your head drooDs low
There are tears-it is well that your tears
can howt-
You are thinking now of long ago.
You are alone with your heart
VI.
Some wine, some wine, as crimson
AS that where the wild grapes grew,
This grief shall pass
From a red-rimmed glass.
Like shadows over the c~hurchyard grass.
Drink to the dead. Felise-alas.-
And the dead shall drink to you,
FRANK l. STANTON.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-28

How. long is the laundering of the
dirty Castellane liner to be continued
in public?.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-06-29

goes on because the insurrectionary al
lies of the Tagals in the island of Luzon,"
declared the governor, '.have given the
instruction their neral II not material
support" When he declared with bril-
liant emphasis that the success of the
republican party in November meant
peace in the Philippines, while the sue
cess CT the opposition meant prolonga-
ton of the struggle, the delegates and
spectators rose almost as one man and
cheered.
The closing words of the governor
brought another demonstration, and for
minute 1t seemed that the convention
would go mad and then and there make
two nominations instead of one. Plumes
went up and standards again left their
sockets to be waved on high. AS the gov
ernor left the platform he waved a salu-
tation to the moving throngs, and one In
particular toward the radiant face of his
wife sitting just outside the area Of dele
gates.
Senator Thurston, the Demosthenes of
the senate: John w. Yerkes, an orator
from the Blue Grass state, and Gov.
Mount, of Indiana, also seconded Nc
Kinley's nomination, but before the latter
concluded the convention was impatient
for a vote, and several times tried to
howl him down.