The Daily Ardmoreite. (Ardmore, Indian Terr.), Vol. 7, No. 250, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 19, 1900 Page: 2 of 8
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SHEflG. BOSS OF CHINA.
Power of the Chinese Director of
Telegraphs.
PEma ACCESSIBLE THEOUGH EIM
Member of the American-Asiatic So-
eiety Says Shrns's Edicts Are More
j Faltbfollr Followed Thaa Those of
' the Empress Cnlnese Wit Prepa-
t ration How They Regard Pnalah-
j men.
Readers of Chinese dispatches have
doubtless been impressed with the
prominence given Sheng the director
of telegraphs in China. Experiences
f the last few weeks have shown that
Sheng is absolutely In command of the
situation by virtue of his control over
the telegraph system says the Minne-
apolis Journal lie calmly suppresses
Important communications for foreign
governments and delivers them several
days or weeks later if it suits his con-
venience lie refuses to transmit mes-
sages direct from the governments to
their ministers and. in short consti-
tutes himself the supreme master of
the situation.
Samuel Hill of Minneapolis whose
membership in the American-Asiatic
society places him in close touch with
Chinese affairs was asked recently to
lp
SHENG T.OTA.
Director cf Chi.vre te". graphs.)
explain the paramountcy of Director
Sheng whose official title indicates
that he is merely a minor olieial of the
Chinese government. John Menier
an ex-official of the Ctiuc.se govern-
ment in Minneapolis on his way to
England was asked for lisht ou the
subject. It has been repeatedly dem-
onstrated that no sort of business can
be carried ou with the Chinese govern-
ment except through the mediation of
Sheng.
"Sheng" said Mr. Hill '"s the whola
thing. Officially speaking he is nobody
but actually Sheng is the boss of China.
When the European or American seek-
er after a Chinese concession is look-
ing for a channel through which to
eteer his proposition be is directed to
Sheng. Sheng is the stakeholder the
go between. No important deal can be
put into effect except through Sheng.
He is not only the director of tele-!
graphs and railways but the head cC
the Imperial Hau of Cliiuft oud of
the China Merchants' Steamship com-
pany. He is shrewdness personified
a most iufluent'al man. whose edicts
are followed more faithfully tl;an those
of the impress. Slieug is as bold as
be is shrewd. The telegraph system U
absolutely under iiis control. None but
the Chinese know anything of the ex-
tent of that system. As a matter of
fact while it is generally supposed that
there are very few wires and these
connecting only the most Important
points the country is honeycombed
with wires. It Is not to be doubted
that Sheng knows what Is going on
everywhere."
St. John Menier a nephew of Louis
Menier the chocolate man arrived in
Minneapolis the other day. He Is
going to England until the troubles
blow over. Mr. Menier met Mr. Con-
ger a year ago in southern Chl-li with
members of his family. He regarded
the American minister as a benign In-
dividual altogether too unsuspecting
for official residence amid the intrigue
of Peking. Mr. Menier is a mining en-
gineer. Up to a year ago he was offi
cially associated with Chang-Yl. the
director of mines for the province of
Chili.
ChanS-YI Is a warm favorite of the
empress dowager whom Mr. Menier
tias never seen and Chang-Yl told
Menier nearly IS months ago that be
tiad better go to Europe In December
1890. When pressed for a reason the
Chinese official fell back on quotations
of a philosophical nature. He evaded
stating his reasons for warning Menier
out of the country and the latter re
fused to relinquish his position. In
October last Chang calmly Informed
the engineer that his services would
be dispensed with and added that if
he had any regard for his skin be had
better clear out. At that time there
were no signs of disorder but Mr.
Menier realized that some sort of gov-
ernmental coup was projected and he
proceeded to the home of his brother.
who is also a mining engineer In
Shangtung. The brother and bis family
refused to believe that there was
anything wrong and they are still in
Shangtung. Mr. Menier is very anx
lous about them.
"The Idea that thia uprising Is un
premeditated will aot hob) water at all
with those who understand the China-
man" said Mr Menier. "I saw a
factory at Tien-tsin turning- out thou-
sands of Mauser cartridges every day
and there is another factory In the
same place maftlng Mauser rifles quite
as good rifles as are turned out in the
European or American factories. The
foreman of the factory was a German
named Wolff. They have powder fac-
tories In every province working all the
time and they can supply an Immense
army with arms and munitions of war.
The mo6t Recretive and barbaric race
in the world has hoodwinked civiliza-
tion perfectly.
"Sheng the director of the tele-
graphs and Kang-YI. the president of
the war board are working together.
It Is my opinion that they have count-
ed Li Hung Chang out as being too old
for active participation in so important
a game as that now being played.
Kang-YI is one of the worst foreigner
baiters in the empire. He Is the invent-
or of Innumerable refinements of tor-
ture and Is credited with being very
close to the empress.
"The tsung-li-yamen Is nothing In
particular merely a bluff like the
private secretary of a great railway
president whose business is to stand off
importunate callers. This body has not
the power to decide ownership of a
lost log. It considers all matters relat-
ing to foreigners with great elaboration
and then if it cannot shelve them per-
manently passes them on to the grand
council which consists of the emperor
and empress dowager and eight others
selected for their statesmanship and
Influence.
"They have sent for Lr Hung Chans
to go to Peking and sit with the-grand
council. Wang Wen Shoo president of
the board of revenue. Is also a member
of the tsung-Il-yamen. He Is also a
commissioner of the railway and min-
ing bureau and I was brought into
contact with him officially twice during
my residence In Chi-li. All the men
are in the game. They have been play-
ing It for years. I never found out
anything about it and few Europeans
suspected that there was anything seri-
ous on.
"The foreign element soon becomes
used to the idea that nothing a China-
man does or says is especially signifi-
cant because the Chinaman has a dif-
ferent way of thinking than any other
man on the face of the earth. He rea-
sons backward. Yu-lu. viceroy of Chi-
ll is supposed to have influence at
court and they rate him as one of the
greatest scholars In the empire but be
has no more sand than a cooly. Any-
thing he said would be prejudiced from
the start
"The men at the bead of affairs are
of a character no European or Ameri-
can can comprehend. No Chinaman
fears punishment. I have even seen a
man sentenced to death by the most
Inconceivably cruel system of torture
purchase a substitute from among the
crowd for a ridiculously small sum cf
money. If the Chinese believe that
any act of theirs will enhance their
spiritual welfare or that of the nation
they will hesitate at no atrocity irre-
spective of future punishment. The
nations ought to take all sorts of
chances to reach Peking. No risk is
'too great to be accepted. There are
women and children there who will
meet the most fearful fate."
"I was afflicted with a skin dis-
ease which caused my hair to come
out in large patches. I tried every-
thing I could hear of to cure this
but with no success until I ueed
Beggs' Hair Renewer wbicb cured
me at once." Will J. Hogert
Mempbif Tenn. T- Coleman and
W. B. Frame.
POW E R FUL OIL LAMP j
Caaadlaa Devlea Which Bsras Vmf
Brtahter Thaa n Iaeaadeaeeat.
A student's Incandescent coal oil
lamp giving far better brilliancy than
a 16 candle power electric light has
been Invented by V. L. Emerson of
Ottawa. Ont The Incandescence Is
created by blowing a thin stream of
oil in a spray over a film shaped
like the Auer light burner and the re-
sult Ss said to be a light of about 20
times the brilliancy of an ordinary 16
candle power electric light and it will
cost one-tenth of a cent an hour.
To an ordinary student's coal 'oil
lamp Mr. Emerson has attached a
small box. Into which air is forced by
means of a pump and Is there com-
pressed says the Chicago Tribune.
The air Is connected with the oil
chamber and the air pressing upon the
oil forces It through a tiny hole in a
pipe leading to the burner. This pipe
is curved like an S and when the oil
escapes from the pipe it Is spray and
is cast over the film where It burns
with great brilliancy.
A company will be formed In Ottawa
to manufacture tbe lamps. A beating
arrangement on the same basis is also
said to be giving excellent results and
will be manufactured.
Fashions From Paris.
Some odd ideas are shown In. the. dec-
oration of. gowna In Paris' bow. For
instance a traveling- gown oX looacly
woven pastel blue plaid" cheviot bas
bands of white enameled leather for
trimming; say Halt's Bazar- Tfafisa
outline the vest form the sol lire anil
belt and run In two point dfewa ore ttio
front of the sir The lower par of!
tbe skirt Is made In kilt form a pretty
old fashion revived. Stitched bands
are most popular wherever they are
possible even on silk gowns. On ducks
linens and piques they are tbe usual
trimming. On a blue yachting gown
tbe white pique front panel has criss-
crossed bands of tbe same stitched on.
Iadaeenteats to Rasstaa Settlers.
The cheapest railway rate next to
the "pass" is the emigrant fare from
Russia to Siberia says the Indianapo-
lis News. To induce peasants to settle
In tbe eastern districts of Siberia the
Russian railways have Issued tickets
good for a family of any size from any
part of European Russia to Tobolsk at
2 rubles. From Tobolsk to any part
east as far as Vladivostok or Port Ar-
thur the price is 4Yi rubles. Hence for
not quite 7 rubles or about $3.50 a
whole settler's family can travel about
4.000 miles.
Mrs. E. W. Early Marion. Ind.
who has been ill for years writes:
"I was tired could not sleep or
eat and was rapidly going into de-
cline. Doctor called it blood disor-
der but couldn't cure me. I am now
in perfect health and give all the
credit to Beggs' Blood Purifier. T.
N. Coleman and W. B. Frame.
During the civil war as well as in
our late war with Spain diarrhoea
was one of the most troublesome
disease's tbe army had to contend
with. In many instances it became
obronic and the old soldiers still
suffer from it. Mr. David Taylor of
Wind Ridge. Greene Co. Pa. is one
of these. He uses Chamberlain's
Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea" Rem-
edy and says he never found any-
thing that would give- him eucb
quick relief. It is for sale by City
irug Store and T. N. Coleman.
Application in Bankruptcy.
HoustOD Tex. Aug:. 18. An
application in involuntary bank-
ruptcy has been filed against T.
M. Ilichardsen & Son doing a
large lumber business in Texas
Arkansas and Oklahoma. The
petition is at the instance of H.
M. Marks & Co. and five other
creditors. They allege that Rich-
ardson & Son have committed var
ious acts of bankruptcy.
The application for bankruptcy
will be heard at Galveston at a
date not yet set. The assets and
liabilities of the firm will exceed a
half a million of dollars.
It bas been demonstrated by ex-
perience that constipation can be
prevented by the early use of One
Minute Cough Cure. This is tbe
favorite remedy for coughs colds.
croup asthma grippe and all throat
and long troubles. Cores quickly.
City Drug Store W. B. Frame.
Catarrh t-nd Hay Fevr.
Are easily eared bf Bunsen's Cream
Catarrhal.- a- scientific preparation
for catarrh bay fever or cold" in
head. If yon have hay fever or ca-
tarrh try Bnn8en's Cream Catarrhal.
It will give instant relief and ef-
fect a permanent cure. Every box
warranted. Fifty cents per box
Sample free: also pamphlet telling
bow to treat catarrh and bay fever
Address C. W. Beggs Sons & Co.
Chicago 111. Mason & Mason drug!
gists.
"For five years 1 had bleeding
piles and could not work. ' I was in
duced to try Beggs' German Salve
And it gave me such quick relief and
tbe cure is so permanent I want
everybody troubled with this annoy
ing disease to know of it." E. F
Walker Alion 111. T. N. Coleman
and W. B. Frame.
Wheeling W. Va. is to be pre
sented with a cannon captured by
the United States gunboar Wheeling
at Aparrio ou the island of Luzon.
There are no better pills made than
DeWitt's Little Early Risers. Al-
ways prompt and certain. City
Drug Store W. B. Frame.
When ladies go to buy a dress in
Japan tbey tell the shopkeeper their
age and if tbey are married cr not
because there are special designs for
the single and dcuble relations of
life as well as for ages.
After many intricate experiments
scientists have discovered methods
for obtaining all the natural diges-
tants. These have been combined
in the proportion found in the body
and united with substances that
build up the digestive organs mak-
ing a compound called Kodol Dys
pepsia Cure. It digests what yon
eat and allows all dyspeptics to eat
plenty of nourishing food while tbe
stomach troubles are being radically
cured by the medicinal agents it
contains 16 is pleasant to take and
wIU give quick cure City Drug
Store Ardmore I. T.
Maudie dear sometimes your
questions are absolutely foolisb. Of
course grapesbot doesn't grow on
ambushes.
Extreme hot weather is a great
tax upon the digestive power of ba-
bies; when puny and feeble tbey
should be given a dose of White's
Cream Vermifuge. Price 25 cents.
W. B. Frame City Drug Store.
Constipation impaired digestion
and a torpid liver are tbe most
common ailments that are responsi-
ble for that tired listless fagged
out feeling that makes tbe summer a
dreaded period to so many people.
Herbine will cure constipation it
improves the digestion and arouses
tbe liver to cormal activity. Price
50 cents. W. B. Frame City Drug
Store.
Every farmer knows that to kill weeds
Ik must go to the roots. To cat the
weea on on udc sm-
fce means that the
weed is still left to
grow. It's just that
way with boils ul-
cers eruption?
pimples and simik..'
diseases of the flesh.
To cure them yon
most go to tbe roots
down into the biota
Mere surface treat-
ment never gets rid
of the disease. It
will come back at
the first opportunity.
It is to its won-
derful power in the
purification of the
blood that Doctr
Pierre's Rnldrn
IK 1 1 In Medical Discovery
'Li (I 4r owe manv ita
fv 1 'if jj triumphs of healing.
lr"i X It cleanses the blood
-1 - 1 SYtb thorourhlv. elimi
nating all the refu
matter and clears
out the waste and poisonous particle
which clog the body and so rqp! the
flesh. It eradicates from the blood the
conditions which make disease possible.
The result is that diseases die oat lilu.
fires that are unfed.
- There is no medicine for the blood which
is " just as good " as " Golden Medical
Discovery." Accept no substitute.
" I feel it my duty to write to you of the won-
derful curative powers of your ' Goldca Medial
Discovery." " writes Geo. S. Henderson Esq.. of
Denaad.Lce Co. Floods. " I had s bad braise
on my nRht'tar. snd v-y blood was badlyovt of
tnM. 1 tried local doctors but with no (rood
results Ptnally. 1 wrute yon the particulars rn
tny-OBsr. sod von advised your 'Golden Medical
Discovery.' which I began to take. From tbe
first bottle I befrao to feci better and when I bad
taken eight bottles the sure was healed up. I
wise yoa snocasa."
Knee: On receipt' of xi one-cent stamps
to pay expense- of mailing only. Doctor
Pttsroey a-Gonrmorr Sense Medical Adviser
1008 pages paper-bound will be sent
free. For cloth binding send 31 stamps)
to Dr. R. V. Pierce Buffalo N. Y.
fit
I If I
Chin Goon.
DO YOU FEEL ...
BILIOUS- DROWSY
LOW S 1R1TED.
BODY AND
BRAIN WEARY?
PRICKLY
ASH BITTERS
RELIEVES AND INVIGORATES.
It cleanses the liver and bowck strengthens the kidneys iad
aids digestion thus the system is regulated and the
body torlibrd to tesst diteate.
A VALUABLE REMEDY TO KEEP II THE HOUSE .
SOLD BY ALL DRUCCISTS.
.. Pries $1.00 Per Bottle.
W. B. FRAME Special Agent.
2jr '
5 nr. xt r f
i ne new Koute i
Now owes tbe
.. See Wing Restaurant
Meal tickets here pood in Gaines-
ville. Private dining rooms electric
fans. Best Chinese cook in America.
Phone 78.
Owners of Threshing Machines
We beg to submit the following
prices ou repairs where jails art
shipped to our shop:
We wlil rboe your cylinder make new
besd new ring and new steel rod re face
yoar valve and seat on tbe following make
of er'ticei: Uaar-rcott. Niebnls &i shec
ard the Star. Advance. Jumbo. Fries'. Ave y.
Birdsil. Anitman & Taylor. Rumely. Robin-
son. Husvell. .iiDnenpo'is..t. I. Case Minne-
sota t hief. Huber and Peerless.
Un 1 12 or 16 horse power from 1 15 to $20
Two new cylinder riocs $2 00 to J3 H
New Piain Vaive Stem 1 -SO to 3 00
New pistoq eal. rioirs and rod 7 50 to 9 MS
Plain crows nead pump rods 1 0
New crank pin and ream out old
hole 5 0" lo 7 54
All work done same day as received.
KANSAS CITY MACHINE WORKS
Ooe b'o"fc from Union Depot. Eighth
and Hiuti sts. leiephone 4fr. Kan
sas City. Mo.
jylSsw.'Jm
The Wheat Crop is a rtcxrcl breaker
; but when it comes to
Pure Rye
MOUNT AUEURN is the best.
Meant Auburn Rye
Etflf Swings Scar Mssti.
12 full tjuarts. SI I 0": ier gallon 13.50
At your ckaler or write
GLASNER & BARZEN
K-insas City Mo.
n n rni
Dyspepsia Cure
Digests what you eat.
It arti ficially d i gests the food and aids
Nature in streagthening aDd recon-
structing the exhausted digestive or-
gans. It is the latest discovered digest-
ant and tonic. Ko other preparation
can approach it in efficiency. It in-
stantly relieves and permanently cures
Dyspepsia Indigestion Ileartburn
Flatulence Sour Stomach Nausea
Sick Headache.Gastralgia.Cramps and
all other rcsultsof imperfect digestion.
Price SOc. and fl. I-arpe sizecontains2' times
small siae. Book all about dy ape psi& mailed tree
Prepared by E. C. DeWITT & CO.. Chicago.
City Drug Store W. B. Frame Prop
Warning Order.
In the Mayor's Court for the City of Ardmore
before W T Gardner. Mayor.
Bonner & Bonner plaintiffs 1
va
Volney Nickell. defendant )
The defendant Volney Nickell. Is warned
to appear In this court In thirty days and
answer the complaint of the plaintiffs Bon-
ner Bonner.
Witness my hand thia 13th day of Augin
A D 1W0.
W. T. GanDitna. Mayor of Ardmore.
Lcdsetteb & Bledsok. attj's for plaintiffs
Tom NoBttAX att for non-resident dft.
If yon want your nair to grow
don't waste time with hair tonics.
Get at tbe fouodation which lies in
the hair cells and blood vessels that
supply them with life. Beggs' Hair
Kenew&r will do it. It has grown
hair on hundreds of bald beads will
do it for you. T. X. Coleman and
W. B. Frame.
For digestive weakness nervous-
ness pains in tbe side flatulence
dizziness wakefulness headache
and other annoying accompaniments
of costiveness vUerbine is a prompt
and unequalled remedy. Price 60
cents. W. B. Frame City Drug
Store.
MemphisJheEastiSoutheasi!
Solid Wide Vestibuled Trains.
Pullman Buffet Sleepers.
Free Reclining Chair Cars.
RAPID SCHEDULES. CLOSE CONNECTIONS
AT CONVENIENT HOURS
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C. B. HART Qca'1 West. Aft. A. P. KIDWELL. T. P. A.
Oklahoma City. O. T. Okiahctta Cltt. at
J- P. MOLD EX Traffic Maaafer. Little Rock. Ark. J
W : - 1
JJ Lvacls In Staple and Fancy Groceries..'
LET :JE SF.LIj you your J
fTj OATS HAY. CHOPS CORN and BRAN i
iji Free and prompt delivery. rt. 1 . OUHLO. J
Racine Gas and Gasoline Engi
Suitable for All Purposes Where a
Light Power is Required.
Simple in Construction and Mechanism Anyone Cas Blti Tin
: Tl:ey retire:
No Experienced
Engineer
No Fireman
No Boiler
No 5 team
No Coal Wood
or Water
No Feed Pu m ps Q u agea
No Fires Smoke
Nor Ashes.
They are a Clean. Neat and Compact Ppwer
ABSOLUTELY SAFE and can be started in one rr.innte. or.
oping full power at once. See one at tbe Ardmoreite oOce. sliert
questions will be cheerfully answered.
SIDNEY SUGGS Agent
. Ardjiohe 1. 1
The Ardmoreite ForclfnsF
job panic
YOUNG & HEINTZ
DAI1AS te:cas-
Machinery Mill I Gin SuppHe
High Grade Belting a Specialty.
Write for what you want.
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