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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-01-05
MIGHT HAVE BEEN.

For the Register.
0, the mystic land Of Might Have Been.
With its wealth and jewels rare,
Where the glorious sun comes gi!nting In
On a scene that Is wondrous fair.
Here live the deeds we might have done.
With the things we tried to do,
And the finished work that We begun
Greets us with lustre new.
Riches and power. that long ago
Seemed almost in our grasp.
Come In the dream-their Joys we know.
Their pleasures fondiy clasp.
No blighted hopes. nor faithless friend.
Can find a dwelling here.
But faith and love in sweetness blend.
The fieeting hours 10 cheer.
We see the form of a darling boy
That was lost in the passing years:
He lives and speaks again. o, Joy!
His kisses dry our tears.
Then away regrets of a hated past;
Bring not our shadows In.
Let US live and dream while life may last,
In the land Of Might Have Been.
WILL s. GREESLIEF.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-01-05
Politics.

Boston Herald.
The Republican party machine in
Philadelphia, probably the most cor
rupt organization of the kind in Amer
lea, not excepting Tammany, has been
making new rules 20 enable it to fix
more tightly its grasp upon control.
The organization is managed in the
interest of Mayor Ashbridge and his
henchmen, and the new rules are de-
vised to secure and perpetuate their
control. The time of notice OF primary
elections is reduced from thirty days
to fifteen. Holders of municipal Offices
are made eligible for primary election
officers, for which they were ineligible
before, and candidates for delegates to
conventions may be primary election
officers, the better to look after their
own interests. One of the most inter-
esting changes is the provision made
against boiling. All who desire to be
candidates for Office are required to
lodge with the campaign committee
a pledge in writing that they will
abide by the decision Of the primary,
or convention, and loyalty support the
nominee. These pledges are to be pub
licly presented and read before the
balloting in all nominating conven-
tions. To secure that men of indie
pendent leanings shall not obtain
nominations, the city committee is
constituted a court to decide on con-
tests. 1t is always practicable to get
I'D a contest on some pretext. This
will take the matter out of the control
of the citizens, and enable the ring
to substitute a ~congenial candidate in
place of any reformer who may obtain
a nomination. The rule in prevention
of boiling runs against honest men
whose nomination is defeated by fraud
notorious practice in Philadelphia
caueuseS.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-01-05

a portion of them. IN other words it
will be seen that it is the protective
tariff in the trusts" which puls many
of our industries out of joint and all
our industries upon an artificial basis,
unsound and unstable because out o.
touch with free and healthy trade.
There is increasing evidence that the
same protection which enables our
trusts" to tax our export trade is also
giving other countries a strong induce
ment and a ready excuse for trying to
bar it out altogether. Some Of them
are alreafI initiating us by increasing
their tariff duties to prohibitory rates,
or by kindred vexatiouS enactments,
and strong pressure is exerted upon
other governments to follow the same
bad example.
But producers for export are not the
only or even the chief sufferers. ALI
our producers are subject to the dlcta-
ton and all Jul consumers to the ex-
tortion of the protected trusts; anu
it is contrary to justice and common
sense that all should have to wait for
relief until a part choose to bear it no
longer.
The New England Free Trade Lea
que. seeking to induce the people to
enact measures for this relief, offers
it's services in furnishing a series OF
articles from eminent men who will
demonstrate in detail the conditions
described above. Win the benefits or
evils of trusts in general these ar
ticles will not deal. They will, how
ever, continue to prove that, whatever
benefits there may be in trusts the
American people do not get the enc
fits in cases where the trusts" are
supported by protection.
l believe the last series proved that.
The attention the articles received n
the correspondence they ELECTED lead
me to think that they were generally
regarded as candid and forcible discus
sions of 8 most important subject. l
think I may promise as much Tor tie
new series.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-01-05
A GANG OF INcENDIARIEs.
Have Been Making 1t Hot fos
Gilmer County People.
Special to the Register.

Special TO the Register.
CHENILLE. w. Va. January 6.-Tho
frequency with which. In the last year.
property belonging to T. NJ. Marshall and
L. D. Taylor has been burned and other.
wise destroyed. leaves little doubt that
they are the victims of a gang OF incen-
diaries and desperate characters who are
determined to ruin them. Only a few
days ago the store of L. D.. Taylor. at
Stout's Mill, this county. was set on fra,
and totally destroyed, causing a loss OF
$500. with only a little insurance. Less
has 4 year before his house and store
had been destroyed by an incendiaxy fire.
and the loss had been about the same.
with no insurance.
The night before the store ofMr. Taylor,
was burned the last time a large stack OF
hay belonging to r. NJ. Marshall was
burned by incendiaries. II was not his
first loss. for wiIinn a year he had the
following property destroyed by Are, all
of supposed incendiary origin; A lum-s
Der pile. containing a thousand doltarSl
worth Of lumber; a storage house valued,
at three hundred dollars: a hay stack,
a sheep house containing Is sheep and 5ol
goats, which were all burned alive. In
addition to this he had four head OIL
cattle shot; his shotgun was stolen. thot
wheels were stolen from his moving ma
chine; his wire fence was cut and thrown
into the river. and his horses names and
tails were shaved off in fly time. Last
summer he missed a valuable bull. which
he supposed had wandered OF, but a few
days ago its remains were found showing
that 1t had been haine to a tree on tho
mountain side and left there to die.
The poor beast had eaten the bark and
branches from the Tree IT was tied to In
its effort TO keep from starving.
Besides all this. two school houses In
the same neighborhood have been burned
In the last few months and 95 fox hounds
have been Killed. The community is pref
~ well worked up over these events and
1t would not go well with any person
caught setting fire TO property or inJur-
ing animals or property.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-01-05
AN IMPORTANT DISCUSSION

BY Henry w. Lamb, President of the
New England Free Trade league
The success of the series of articles
published last year upon Tariff
Trusts demands that they should be
followed up. The subject, however, is
SO clearly connected with another topic
of great interest, that. in Offering to
furnish another series collected and
edited by our Free Trade League, it
seems desirable to include articles up
on Protection and Foreign Markets
as well as upon Protection and
Trusts"
The two subjects are, indeed, close
ly allied. Not only do protected
trusts" prey upon consumers and
harass producers in our home market,
but they put a brake upon those who
would increase the export trade, which
our people have recently come to re-
gard with great pride and are begin
ming to consider necessary to American
prosperity. This drag upon the wheels
is felt even now, when we are upon
grades made easy by the great pros
perity of other nations; but it will be
more keenly felt when the uphill work
begins, when some check to the pres
ent world wide commercial and indus
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-01-05

apparent to those who watch the
course of prices. The injurious effect
OF this trust method, especially upon
our export trade, have been placed
before the people in a practical and
easily understood n by able
writers of the league and the resump-
ton of the publication of this series
of articles will be of value in educat-
ing the people on this subject.
The danger is very real that
threatens American industry at home
and curtails American trade abroad
in the continuance of the policy of
certain great combinations who use
their monopoly to arbitrarily control
prices to American consumers under
protection of the tariff. The emanci-
patton of American trade should be
one of the earliest achievements of
the Twentieth Century.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-01-05

wealth SO long known as the Golden
State. 1t is now rapidly supplying the
chief Industrial need of CALIFORNIA;
cheap and efficient fuel. With this
blessing available, this State will
awaken rapidly to the large indus
trial life and prosperity which it's geo
graphical position, it's vast and var
led and the commercial
awakening of the Pacific region make
part of it's destiny. With an abund-
ant fuel supply equivalent to coal at
$3.50 to $500 per ton, manufacturers
will be enabled to multiply and pros
per in competition with other parts Of
the world. The petroleum industry is
thus a basic one in this State, and will
do for California what cheap coal has
done for Pennsylvania and Alabama"
According to our contemporaries fig
ures, the crude oil output of California
in 1900 will be between 1900, 900 and
5000, 900 barrels. In 1899 it was q
677,S75 barrels, to which figure it had
steadily advanced year by year. Its
allied products were: Asphalt, $1,000
ton; bituminous rock, 40,321 tons; nat
ural gas, 115, no. 900 cubic feet.
That other oil fields have nothing
as yet to fear in the way of competi-
ton from the California fields, which
will probably remain isolated to a
great degree, is explained by the Re-
porter, which says: Its product is
not in a commercial position to stimu-
late competition with other fields in
the worlds markets. No foreign trade
has been established or sought, except
for asphalt, but the great future in
crease of refining will undoubtedly
place the refined products in foreign
markets. So far the output has been
consumed within the State and so
great are the possibilities of the home
consumption that California will be
able to take care of an increase Of
millions of barrels in the output"
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-01-05
TWIST PINT"
Another Tale From
Three"


Three"
Terrence lMsi-aney, Orthens Il
Jacn Leroyd were comfortably located
along the river shore, beneath the Shade
of a tree. They. as military men were
discussing everything military that hap
pened to occur to their minds. At this
time West Point enlisted their atten-
ton. Kipling let them loose long
enough to do this, after which he Will
place them in stocks again.
Me sowl wild the Saints, an the dlvll
take the rist ov We" said Mulvaney as
he helped himself to a bottle of beer,
but this Wist Pint HAHN is the diylls
own business. The young judes there
pick out some poor. weak sort oV q
oowl an thin work the Spanish inqui-
sition on him. They'll take some young
chip ov a boy that niter quarreled in
his life toims.nor fought a bull dog a n
they larrup the mortal sthuffin u ov
him. They put that vile sauce down
his nick-the same kind we got at
Simla Orteris. me boy, that tooh tn
skin eff the inside ov our hicks an made
III beer taste bad,-thin ley make him
stand or his hid in a tub Of ice wather
till ne sthrangle thin they play other
innocent pranks" wild him Thin in
nocent pranks,' we've heard ov thin,
an so have |, and they are so rotten
dirty sor, that wouldn't tell thin to
a decent civilian"
Il tell We now, I'd like to see thin
goslin sojers try their dirty business
on Jack there, wild his six feet two an
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-01-05
AN EXTRAORDINARY BODY
Is the Board of Education of the
CherIeston School District.

Special to the Register.
CHARLESTON, w. Va. January a..
A most extraordinary organization Is
the Board of Education CT Charleston
school district (outside the city,. A
year ago it was all mixed up with the
people of the territory owe whose
schools it presides because of its at
tempt to usurp the power and authority
of the trustees in the matter OF en-
ploying teachers: now it has the entire
taxpaying population all worked up
over the matter of the tax levy.
The law says the levy for the build
ing fund shall not exceed for any one
year forty cents on the 800 assessed
valuation; but the Board of Education,
with sublime indifference to statutory
provisions, made the levy 81 on the
500 valuation. When the taxpayers
went to the sheriff's office TO settle they
were ~dumfounded by the enormity OF
the figure that confronted the-for they
found their taxes more than doubled in
amount over last year.
Speaking mildly-the discovery rails
ed a storm.
Never was such an indignant set OF
property owners and taxpayers. since
the laying of the first tribute. Remarks
have been made that would not look
well in print, and things have been
said that are absolutely unknown TO
parliamentary proceedings
The upshot of the matter Is that a
meeting of the taxpayers has been call
ed fer Saturday afternoon, when. in
true American style, more things will
be said and resolutions will be spread
upon the minutes of the meeting.
An organization will be formed to
resist the collection of the levy, and
the matter will be taken into the courts
by the Injunction route.
: 1t is a pretty fight as it now stands.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-01-05
NOR LAW AND THE REMEDY.

The sheriff of Ripley county, Ind,
the other day, paid over $4,000 to the
widow of one of five men who were
lynched in that county several years
ago. This was the outcome of a suit
by the widow. This is taken as a text
by the New York Sun, which revives
the ancient discussion as to the pre-
vention of mob-law. 1t says:
The Indiana case suggests the correct
i've hard cash; Unjust taxation has caused
many a bloody war. just taXing of dam
ages will stop lynching. The method of
-r2aking a Sheriff's bondsmen foot the bill
is open to the objection that If he can
prove an honest attempt to protect his
method is to assess the taxpayers of the
county where the lynching occurs. The
only plea then possible would be that the
sheriff's force of deputies was not strong
enough to cope with the mob and thai he
called on the governor for troops
promptly; but these would be questions
of fact, and the plea would seldom be
interposed. Moral s~uasion, reproach. even
loss of business nave failed to discourage
lynching. and education does not make
much Roadway. Let it be paid for out
of the pockets of citizens. and few pay
ments will have to be made"
The Louisville Courier-Journal,
which takes up the Suns argument,
points out the fact that there is moth
ing new in this-nothing that has not
been tried, concluding a lengthy dem
onstration with the wide observation
that "the only remedy for moi law is
a genuine public sentiment against it.
The next best is in officers who at all
hazards will uphold the law against
mobs. But assessing damages against
the bondsmen of inefficient officers,
while it may do some good, will not
alone secure the desired end"
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-01-05

In Receipt of a Present From His SON,
Who Saw Chinese Service

~ RCGChPt 0k EEGStAt rom NtS SOM
Who Saw Chinese Service
Special to the Register.
MARTINSBURG. ". Va, January 4.
Ex-senator Charles James Faulkner
has just received by registered mail
from his son, Lieutenant Charles p.
Faulkner, of the United States regular
army. mailed by the Lieutenant upon
his return to Manila from China,
where he has been on duty since the
Boxer uprising and where he took
part with the allied forces in their
march on Pekin, a very handsome
piece of cardinal red silk about eight
feet long and four feet wide. on which
is inscribed in gold letters in English
Presented. TO Lieutenant Charles p.
Faulkner, for his kindness and pro-
gold letters, Good ruling" beneath
which are large Chinese hieroglyphics
in black satin letters. This was pre-
scented to Lieutenant Faulkner by the
citizens of that section of the city of
Pekin over which he was set in con-
troll during the occupancy OF the same
by the American troops. He has sent
il home to his family that it might be
preserved until his return.
The Lieutenant also sent an exceed
ingly handsome embroidered banner.
six feet by two feet which his COM
pany captured in the attack on the I'M
perial city. He has been in active
service for the past two years in the
Philippines. and when the uprising in
China occurred his command was In
cluded in the detail to do service In
China.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-01-05
AN EXTRAORDINARY CONDITION.

"A peculiar state of affairs has been
~precipitated by the extraordinary &C
ton of the Board of Education of the
Charleston school district, outside the
city, in making the levy for the build
ing fund 81 on the 500 assessed valu-
alton, while the law distinctly pre-
scribes that this levy is not to exceed
40 cent on the 800 valuation in any
one year. The Boards levy would
make the tax five times greater than
the law allows.
~4No wonder the taxpayers of the dis
trict have risen as one man in rebel
lion. A meeting is on the docket for
this afternoon, the outcome of which
will doubtless be an injunction and a
contest in the courts.
From this distance it would seem
that the taxpayers have all the best of
the argument and that a much needed
lesson in enforced economy was in
store for the Board of Education.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-01-05
THE EPIrApH.

II one say There IL no meeting,
No hearing. no repeating.
No hand clasp n no greeting.
On the other side Of death.
Love must vanish with the BREATH
Listen what a dead mar saith.
Lie ! straight with stone above.
On 1t writ the hand I love.
Shall Love thus point it's own,
Yet live less time than the stones
II death have its sting and hating,
Full sorrow. saddened waiting;
If il forbid the mating
With q wind Of frozen wrath,
co walk in the ~churcayard path:
Read the word the dead mar hath:
Lie ! straight with stone above.
On II writ the hand love.
Shall Love thus point out ite own.
Yet live leEs time than the stoneg.'
POST WHEELER
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-01-05

his is stone weight Mulvaney gave
an admiring glance at Jacks colossal
figure. then resumed,-"But they don't
try it on that kind ov stock.-an' by the
Holy st. Bridget would like thin to
try it on Torrance Mulvaney, jist
wanst."
"Lor' bless We, the first day / put on
the widdy's uniform two o. us got into
a scrimmage wild a whole beer garden
full O. thin kind o. people. They OBJ
jected to our presence an then the II
comminced, an by the sacred G
lis MOI twenty minutes that
n0ked ike the battle ovx
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-01-05
Although made an earl with the title

Although made an earl with the title
to descend through his daughter, his
son being dead, and a knight of the
Garter, and feted and toasted as a
c%onquering hero, still some folks in
London are kicking because Lord Rob-
erts was not made a duke. Mean
while it stumps most folks to under
stand why he has been distinguished
as all. Lord Kitchener's views on
this point would be interesting.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-01-05

trial activity occurs, or. for any rea-
son, our exported products have to face
a drop in prices abroad.
Then it will be seen that it is espec-
tally the protected trusts" those that
owe their existence to the protective
tariff. which will place the most seri-
GUS obstacles in the way of extending
or even retaining our export trade.
Other monopolies maH1evy tribute up
on the producers of goods for export
extort exorbitant Sprices for serv-
living them but nothing in
The Elective taii1
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-01-05

CADIZ, Ohio, January "a ten-year-
old son Of Marion Moore. Of near Cass-
Vile. this county. drank a bottle OF blue
ink, and word received here this morn
ing says the boy died in great agony. An
effort win be made 10 determine what
was IN the ink.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-01-05

The New Years number of the
Cleveland World is unique among
newspaper publications, It's news is
written as if the date of publication
was one hundred years hence, or jan
uary l, POOL, affording great scope for
humorous writing, which is fully
taken advantage Of by the Worlds
staff.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-01-05
Coal. Land sold.
Special 70 the Register.

Special TO the Register.
CLARKsBURG, w. Va. January &C.
Sprigg Sands and Howard s. Smith nave
sold 400 acres of coal holdings on Browns
Greek to Cyrus j. Aehre and J.. T. Blair.
of G~reenville, Pa. The consideration paid
was s2S.7975. The territory will be OPP
Grated as soon as the plant is estab-
lishcd.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-01-05

The fact that locomotive works and
car shops are unable to fill the alb,
normal demand for locomotives and
freight cars is one of the strongest
evidences of solid industrial prosper
ity.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-01-05

For HI Register.
Behold Behold the sun
In its light giving power.
See man welcoming newborn hour
Which will proclaim 10 him
The skies are not always clear,
So hours grow into years.
Enough to make the aged fear.
Centuries come ard go. like beautifu1
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-01-05

The Minnesota legislature has be-
fore it four candidates for the seat of
the late Senator Cushman X. Davis.
Minnesota has u condolences.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-01-05

A Democrat will succeed Senator
Walcott, of Colorado, which is some
thing more gained in the general
wreck.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-01-05

twenty-five below zero up in New
York State! This is getting seriously
neal home.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-01-05

Special TIC the Register
TORONTO, O., January f-Harry w.
|Fickes age 10. and Pearl Thomas, age
k1S, walked from their home at New
somerset, i've miles froml here to this
Eplace and were married. E7ekd
posaessee conaidefable No
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-01-05

Why not larger street cars? asks
the Chicago Chronicle. Why not
more of them?
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-01-05

It's a queer stomach that stalls at
Clark of Montana and accepts Quay of
PENNSYLVANIA. The Intelligencer per-
forms this feat OF political gastronomy
,thout turning a hkir.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-01-05

children with her. 1t is reported they
all living together now at Clarksburg.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-01-05
>rICKET.
INVITATIONS.

~ANNExATIONS.
he North Amer
extracts from a
article from
Prison on the
territory and it's
to say that Mr..
ablest constitu-
nal lawyers in
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administration
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red by him
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advance re-
rts the view
ons( Ia, anything
Iabsd government
in aAaS territory over
t~hesUHion floats. He
les that theory to alb
bill which under
Congress in re-
Porto Rico,
permanently
nd. prescribe
lefs and prac-
rs, ennoble and
certain officials
doing of other
hutton forbids.
law of the
daily with a
the constitu-
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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-01-05

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