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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-11-11

ion led up to the famed opium wa. !"
which ended disastrously for the Chi
nese in every way. Visible evidence OF
British supremacy in the opium trade
is furnished in the old opium hulks
moored opposite the "Bund' at Shang-
hal where the pernicious drug is stored
against demand. closely guarded. as II
is in some respects more precious than
gold or silver. The profit on the inn
ported Indian opium, which Is that
from which the English realize so
largely. has OF late been greatly re-
duced by the raising OF large quanti-
ties in western China.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-11-11

tail and obeyed-for three weeks.
Then he disappeared again. This
time he stayed awey three days and
came home on the fourth, crawling
into his kennel as before and going to
sleep with the same sort of injunction
to Gubbins not to modest him. Cub
bins shifted and carried tales TO Sam.
Il suspect that somebody's enticin'
him away, Mr.. Sam" said Gubbins,
and Sam said to lock him in the stable
at night So Zeb was locked up at
dark, but made the nights so hideous
that he was put back in his kennel.
All summer long he continued his pc
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A BRoBD1NGN AG1AN BANQUET.

of
the
tribute Loubet
Paris
probably popular
before tickle populaee hange their minds
Twenty-Five thousand banquet
spectacle
immensely for Of tie worthy men hats that might have
Almost
orie
% not yet of
Count Casell4 the
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Fair Luna's Latest Photorranb.

This, the latest photograph of the
moon, comes to us direct from Paris,
where it was taken through the great
telescope at the exposition. Being the
largest telescope. n the world. this in
strument has brought the moon, as well
as all other celestial orbs in space al
most within speaking distance" of the
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-11-11
AN OPIUM HULK AT SHANGHAI.

Opium has been known to the Chi
nese for nearly 1000 years, and they
have used it for its Intoxicating effects
since the middle of the seventeenth
century. Its use has constantly in
creased, until to-day John Chinaman is
of the opinion that he can do without
many other things rather than give 1t
up. The imperial authorities. howevez
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-11-11
SHELL AND SEAWEED FISHES OF VENICE.
FROM PHOTOGRAPH BY AN AMERICAN ARTIST

The photograph illustration that inter-
subjects
grouping Adatlc stir holds charm q
lost her commercial
This picture morning Of the great boats
OF
are gathered picturesque and
as S essential
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much they may have been addicted 20
the use of opium themselves. did not
think it good for the people at large,
and issued interdict after interdict, but
all to no avail. as the English, who
were benefited by its introduction into
China, fought successfully against
them. In fact, the difference of opip
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a guilty,
all
railroad
This illustration cultvator
bridge which repaired before
the cultator
it, just the thus double accident resulted.
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America that do all its time and most OF
Indian
the male Haunting the hne while the female contents her
limbs brilliant But
not himself all the privileges Of ornamenaon
this the latest
with the
latest portrait of gallant Evelyn Wood G. G. b..
q a. c. L. with decorations,
mainly bestowed
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1900-10-04
WAS NOT ASKED AGAIN.
Michigan Politician Was Not
Conspicuous.

NJ. E. Chittenden, the Michigan politician
who died recently, dearly loved Joke. His
own initials, IN. E. c., he always insisted,
stood for Methodist Episcopal church, which
organization, could it have secured him,
would have acquired very lively member.
Mart" as Mr.. Chittenden was Familiarity
called, relates the Chicago Chronicle, par
TALLY lost his hearing some years ago and
communication with him thereafter was one
of the fine arts. Being the agent of
the Standard Oil company for large terri
tory, he travelled considerably, and on a GER
tain occasion fell in with couple of friends
1t Hillsdale, who invited him to 60 with them
to dinner at the house of a resident aac-
quaintance. One Of them quietly said to the
host: "Nlr. Chittenden is an exceedingly
pious man and likes to have the food blessed
before partaking. You must invite him to
ask the blessing.
Accordingly, when all We're seated, silence
fell upon the company, while the host turned
to Mr.. Chittenden with "Will you ask the
blessing"
Up went Chittenden's hand to his ear, with
his usual, quick, nervous gesture, as in a
listening attitude he responded in a tone
more decided than unctuous:
''Ive grown so ALFRED deaf lately that if
you've got anything to say to me you'll have
to say it devilish loud"
A roar from the two friends disclosed to
Chittenden and the astonished host that
they had been the victims of practical joke.
But "Chit" enjoyed it amazingly when he I'M
derstood what had happened.
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CHAPTER XII.

A RECONSTRUCTED DRAMA.
AS he spoke, Sturgis handed Dunlap
the sheet of paper upon which he had
traced plan of the Knickerbocker
bank.
From this point on" he continued,
II have indicated the various trails on
the diagram. The dotted lines repre-
sent Arbogast's footprints; the con-
tinuous lines show Chatham's trail"
"How can you distinguish between
the two?" inquired Dunlap.
''There is no difficulty about that"
replied Sturgis. "The differences are
very marked. I know Arbogast's foot
because I have seen it.; and I know
that the other one is Chatham's be-
cause you recognized the man from
the description gave of him."
eyes, I know. But how could you
describe him so accurately when you
have never seen him?"
81 shall come to that presently" said
Sturgis, smiling; 'you must let me
tell my story in my own way, if I am
to tell it connectedly'
every WE'LL" said the banker, resign
edly. ''Hold on, though" he ex-
claimed; you speak of two sets of
trails; but what is this third set Of
lines, marked by alternate dots and
dashes?" ss5.
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TASTES IN THE CIGARETTE.
There II Great Difference Between
the Imported and the Domes-
tic Articles,

Two men were seated in the rear
Of an open trolley car. One of them
was smoking a cigar. In the seat
directly in front of them was a yell
low-fngered youth putting away at a
cigarette, the smoke from which was
waited back in great clouds, says
Chicago exchange. "That almost
makes me SICK" muttered the man
who was smoking the cigar. Eyes, I
can scarcely stand it," agreed his
companion. The cigar smoker looked
quizzical. "Why, you smoke cigar
cites yourself" he said. Il shouldn't
think you would mind it," "You CT
gar smokers make me tired" was the
reply. "You seem to place all cigar
cite smokers in one class. Now, you
smoke pretty good brand of cigar.
The odor of two-for-fve would per-
haps be just as distasteful to you as
the odor of that cigarette. 1t may
seem strange to you, but while, as
you say, am a cigarette smoker, the
odor of that domestic two-fQr-a-cent
cigarette is just as nauseating to me
as it is to you. There is just as much
difference between the cigarette made
from Virginia tobacco and that made
from Turkish as there is between
50-cent cigar and one that sells at
two for five. When a man once forms
q taste for cigarettes made from i'm
ported tobacco the domestic article is
just as repugnant to him as it is to
the cigar smoker. Just remember
that in the future when you place
all cigarette smokers in the same
classo
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PERSONAL AND 1MpERsoNAL.

Byron Brennan, the English consul at
Shanghai, has spent "a years in
China, where as long ago as 1866 he
was appointed student interpreter.
Last year was bad one for tho
British peerage. The death-list in
cluded three dukes, one marquis, five
earls, three viscounts and ten barons.
Several peerages became extinct.
The lord mayor is the only person,
besides the queen and the chief con-
| sta BILE, who knows the password to the
Tower of London, The password is
sent to the Mansion house quarterly,
signed by her majesty.
Lombroso and Nordau, who call &C.
MUS insanity, have been outdone by
the French doctor, Maurice De Fleury,
who has discovered that love is a
malady of the mind, to be classed
among the most distressful of dis
| eases.
A New York swindler in trying to
evade the officers sprang from a Sec
ond-story window of the hoffman
house, and used an umbrella for q
| parachute. He aighted on an awning.
Thence he jumped to the ground, but
was quickly seized by the porters and
held until the police arrived.
An Iowa farmer prepared to market
his wheat when on opening his gran
ary he found hen had found her
way thereto, nestled and was engaged
in the Matching process. Out of kind
ness of heart the farmer concluded to
wait the increase in his hennery.
Meantime wheat advanced in price,
and, besides gaining a fine brood of
chickens, he got over 500 more for
his wheat.
A fat citizen of the seacoast town
of Lubec, Me-, went down ladder at
the side of a schooner to get ham,
mer he had dropped overheard. He
inserted his body between the rungs
of the ladder, that he might reach
down and get the hammer from the
shoal water, and became stuck there.
The tide was rising, and he was res
cued three hours afterward, just in
time to save him from drowning, the
water reaching within two inches OF
| his mouth.
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SMELL OF THE ONION.
It il Attributable to a Germ-Killing
Combination of Sulphur
and Hydrogen.

It is interesting to make inquiry into
of the onion. It is simply due to the
presence in some quantity of another
mineral ma alter in the bulb-sulphur.
It is this sulphur that gives the onion
its germ-lilling property and makes
the bulb SO very useful medicinal
agent at all times, but especially in the
spring, which used to be-and still is
in many places-the season for taking
birthstone and treacle in old-fashioned
houses before sulphur tablets came
into vogue, says Chambers Journal.
Now sulphur, when united to hydro
gen, one of the gases of water, forms
sulphuretted hydrogen, and then be-
comes a foul-smelling, well-nigh a
fetid, compound. The onion, being so
juicy, has very large percentage OF
water in its tissues, and this, combin-
ing with the sulphur, forms the strong
ly scented and offensive substance
called sulphurette of allyle, which is
found in all the albums. This sui
phuret of allyle mingles more especially
with the vola tile or aromatic oil of the
onion; it is identical with the malodor-
ant principle found in asafetida, which
Is almost the symbol of all smells that
are nasty. The horse radish, SO much
liked with roast beef for its keen and
biting property, and the ordinary mus
tard of our tables both owe their
strongly stimulative properties to this
same sulphuret of allyle, which gives
them heat and acridity, but not an
offensive smell, owing to the different
arrangement of the atoms in their
vola tile oils.
This brings us to most curious fact
In nature, that most strangely, yet
most certainly, constructs all vegetable
volatile oils in exactly the same way
composes them all, whether they are
the aromatic essences of cloves,
oranges, lemons, cinnamon, thyme,
rose, verbena, turpentine or onion, OF
exactly the same proportions, which
are SsA of carbon to 11A of hydrogen,
and obtains all the vast seeming di.
versities that our nostrils detect in
their scent simply by different ar.
rangement of the atoms in each vege.
table oil. Oxygen alters some of these
hydrocarbons; sulphur others.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1900-10-04

up the balance of the message as I
read it between the letters
Sturgis wrote slowly and carefully
for few minutes.
"There; behold the result"
The message had now assumed this
form:
Thomas Chatham,
-. B'way. city;
e Sams soath M and Van Va t street.
J. w. Arbogast.
"Compare this with the reflection of
the original and tell me if you do not
now detect various isolated marks and
incomplete letters, all of which tally
with the text have inserted here"
Dunlap made the comparison.
clam obliged to admit that your con-
illusions now appear plausible" he re-
luctantly admitted.
Sturgis shrugged his shoulders.
"Well, call them plausible, and let us
proceed. Chatham kept the appoint
ment yesterday; but for some reason
Arbogast was delayed in leaving the
bank. Perhaps the necessary prepara-
lions for his flight took longer than he
expected
''You think he intended to abscond?"
"Why should he have changed the
combination of his safe, as he did, if not
to give himself as much time as possible
to reach a place of comparative safety
before the books could be examined? 2"
asked Sturgis. chatham, becoming
impatient, forgot the dictates of pru-
dence and started for the bank to as
certain the cause of his accomplice's
delay. He met Arbogast at the Wall
street door. The two men reentered,
Arbogast setting down his satchel in
the vestibule and leaving the outer
door ajar, as Quinlan found it few
minutes later, when he stole the satch-
ell. have every reason to believe that
it was at Chatham's request that the
men returned. He wished to use the
telephone, and he did So"
"Your story is connected, and it is
certainly not lacking in Details" said
Dunlap, incredulously; Gin fact, the de-
tails are far too abundant for the evil
dence thus far advanced"
every one of the details is based up
on facts replied Sturgis. what I
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1900-10-04
PRESENCE OF MIND.
A Little Bit of Blum That Failed to
Work with q Wide Awake
Man,

If there be one thing that more than an
other admire it is the having ones wits about
one-perhaps because never had mine. To
be possessed only of pesprit d'escaliers is
simply an aggravation, writes John Paul in
Harper's Magazine.
AS illustrative of ready.witted men I re-
call an incident that have often told but
never published. Let me do that now in
justice to one that is gone.
In company with the late j. r. Osgood 1
once of an evening dropped in at Wallack's
old Fourteenth Street theater We could
get no seats, as there was standing room
only. At the end of the first act two or
chestra seats were vacant in front, and we
walked down and took them. Barely were
we seated when two gentemanly- looking
young men came down the aisle and ad-
dressed me.
beg pardon, but have you checks for
those seats"
was on the point of rising, when Osgood
replied: "No. Have your"
They hadn't. 1t was merely bit of SUI.
preme bluff. But how few would have had
the readiness to meet and parry it.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1900-10-04

"WeI," said the banker, ''if you can
make anything out of that gibberish,
your imagination is more active than
mine" .....
ut is not question of imagination"
said Sturgis; "let us proceed systemat-
ically. Here is telegram blank de-
tached from G pad I found on Arbo-
CASTS desk. Compare its size with the
outline of the marks on the blotter,
and you will see, in the first place, that
the message would just fit snugly on
this sheet. Next, you will probably
admit that the first line of marks on the
blotter probably contain a date; the
second, name; the third, an address;
the last, signature, and the interme-
date lines, message"
II am quite willing to concede 20
much; for no business man would be
likely to write telegram differently"
every well. Now, then, let me hold
this blank so that the reflection of its
vertical rulings may appear just above
the image of the message. These lines,
remember, separate the words of the
message. Extend them mentally, and
note how they divide the letters of the
blotter. Will you hold these sheets
while transcribe the result?''
In few minutes more the reporter
had drawn several lines on his copy of
the reflection in the mirror.
II don't see that you are any better
off now than you were BEFORE" re-
marked Dunlap, examining the result.
"Wait minute. These vertical lines,
we say, divide the words of the message.
There are five words to the line; only
two on the last line before the sig
nature; that is to say, IL words in
the message. Now, consider the first
word. Evidently the G. begins this
word since it is capital; ndthe -four
ish on the tail of the e. tells us plain
" enough where the word ends. Note
the space between the G. and the 'e.'
Have you ever taken the trouble to as
certain how constant in any given
handwriting is the space occupied by
the different letters? Try it some time.
Count the characters which you have
written in number of different lines,
reckoning spaces and punctuation
marks each as one character, and OBJ
serve how closely the results will
sally. Basing my conclusions on this
fact, I may safely affirm that the
first word of the message is Came
Gave Give or some other word of
four letters beginning with G. and
ending with e. shall proceed to Al
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1900-10-04

have accomplished thus far has been
simple enough, because luck has IA
vored us. Yesterday being cleaning
day at the bank, the floors were
scrubbed some time during the after
noon, before Arbogast was ready to
leave and before Chatham had arrived.
It thus happens that almost every
footstep of the two men has remained
family but distinctly outlined upon the
wet floors, which have since dried, pre-
serving the record. The detectives last
night obliterated a portion of this rec
ord, but they have left traces enough
for our purpose. If you care to crawl
around on all tours as did you can
readily distinguish these traces for
yourself
mo, thank you," answered the bank
er. II prefer to take your word for this
part of the evidence"
'Then I shall resume my story" said
Sturgis. 1.-THE footprints show that
Arbogast stood at his desk while the
scrubbing was going on. We may safe
ly say it was after half-past four
o'clock when he started to leave the
bank; for otherwise it is presumable
that Chatham would have waited for
him at the corner of South and Wall
streets, as he was asked to do in the
bookkeeper's telegram. He first
walked over to the safe and closed it,
changing the combination, so that the
lock could not be opened until he had
had a fair start. Next he went to the
clerks room for his hat and coat and
for the satchel in which he had packed
lust the few necessities for immediate
use in his fight. He started to leave
the building through the Exchange
place door; but probably remembered
that the Wall street door was not
locked, and went back to lock it. AS
he was about to close the outer door,
Chatham arrived on the scene, and the
two men reentered, as we have already
seen. The footprints tell their story
fully and absolutely, their chronology
ical order being established by the oc-
casional obliteration of a footprint in
one trail by another in subsequent
trail. The two men walked back into
the room in which we now are. Their
actions after this will be clearer toy
if you will follow on this diagram"
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1900-10-04
CHAPTER HOODWINKED.

When the reporter came within sight
OF the safe, Dunlap was closely inspect
ing the lock. Presently he uttered an
exclamation of surprise.
''What is it?' asked Sturgis.
II don't understand it," said Dunlap.
II cannot open the safe. The lock
seems all right; but"
perhaps the combination has been
changed"
apparently it has," admitted the
banker; ''but how came it to be changed
on week day, and without my knowl-
edge?"
'.That is rather significant, isn't it ?"
suggested the reporter.
Significant? What do you mean"'
exclaimed Dunlap, excitedly.
II mean that Arbogast was de-
faulter. What his system of defraud-
ing the bank was I do not yet know;
but an examination of the books will
no doubt reveal this; and should adj
wise you, Mr.. Dunlap, to lose no time
in having it made"
''But," argued Dunlap, anxiously, Il
tell you the books were examined last
week"
eyes; by Arbogast's accomplish"
''What, Chatham his accomplice? ?"
exclaimed Dunlap, family.
Chatham was in the plot beyond a
doubt" answered Sturgis. $50 long as
no one had access to the books except
his accomplice Chatham, of course Ar
bogast felt secure. But when, yester-
day, the announcement was made that
after the beginning of the new year his
books would pass to the custody of an
other man, he saw that the game was
up"
The men had returned to the presi-
1dent's Office.
"Those are his very words" contin-
ued thereporter; "thosehe telegraphed
to Chatham yesterday, as you will see
if you hold before that mirror this
sheet of blotting paper which I found
on Arbogast's desk"
Dunlap, with an unsteady hand, took
the plotting paper; and, holding it be-
fore the glass, studied the reflection
intently. 49,.
''What do you make out?" asked
Sturgis.
Nothing whatever" replied the
banker, promptly.
"What?' exclaimed the reporter;
"do you mean to say that you do not
distinguish any marks on the blotting
paper"
II mean to say that do not see any
thing to which can attach any SEM
blance of meaning. The blotting pa
per has been used, and, of course,
there are ink marks upon it; but, as
far as can see, these are wholly dis
connected. They are entirely void of
sense to my eyes, at any rate"
Examine the blotter again careful
ly in this direction" said Sturgis,
drawing an imaginary line upon the
mirror, "and pay no attention to any
other marks which seem to cross these
lines. Now do you see anything?"
The banker examined the image in
the mirror for some time before reply
ing.
''If allow my imagination to enter
into play, I can complete several iso-
lated letters"
"Will you dictate these while note
them here. Be careful to distinguish
between capital and lower-case letters.
Also separate the lines, and state
whether letters come close together
.or are separated by a space"
every WE'LL" agreed Dunlap, who
then proceeded to read off the letters
he saw in the reflection of the blotter
in the mirror.
When he had finished, Sturgis hand
ed him the paper, upon which were
transcribed the letters he had dictated.
They presented the appearance shown
below:
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Rare Philfppine Jewels,

The rarest corals in the world are to be
found in the Philippines, and have now
become American property. AS precious as
this jewel is, there is still rarer one, and
that is the jewel of health, 1t may be pos
sessed by any one, who will keep the diges-
ton active and the bowels regular with
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, the king of all
remedies for Indigestion, dyspepsia, con-
stipation, biliousness, belching, heartburn
and sleeplessness. Try it.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1900-10-04
Her Idea of Farming,

He-1 saw that farm that was adj
vertised and I think I'll buy it.
She-O! Then we'll move away
from the hateful city for good?
eyes. It's fine place; IA acres and
. pond on it."
"Worl't that be nice? We can raise
pond lilies and watermelons in it,
Philadelphia Press
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1900-10-04

Don't allow yourself to become melan.
choly. Laugh once in awhile, whether you
are tickled or not.-Chicago Daily News.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1900-10-04
Wouldn't This Jolt You.

Mr.. Wabash lat the balI-1s your pro.
gramme full, Miss Olive?
Miss Olive (of St. Louis)-My goodness,
no! I've been waiting more than an hour
for some one to come along and take me
down to supper.-Chcago Evening News.