James D. Hague 



way better man to whom, confident 

 of success, he would unfold his pro- 

 ject tomorrow. 



His favorite enterprises were world- 

 wide in their range, sometimes involv- 

 ing important international relations. 

 One of his proudest achievements 

 he accomplished nearly twenty-five 

 years ago, having been deeply moved 

 thereto by reading, at his club in 

 San Francisco, in a current number 

 of the London Times* a stirring letter 

 from that paper's correspondent at 

 Peking, reporting recent events in 

 China and relating a most pathetic 

 story of the wretched fate of certain 

 youthful captives, the children of Ya- 

 koob Beg, a famous chieftain and 

 ruler of Eastern Turkistan, Amir of 

 Kashgar, who, in 1877, was defeated 

 in war with China and ignominiously 

 put to death, and whose three young 

 sons, with one little grandson, all 

 * London Weekly Times, September 19, 1879. 

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