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Show IZH TO KOREAN THRONE . WeMARRY AMERICAN i V.. .'- ; i i . ; V7ou!d Serve to Forfeit His Kingship and He Cannot k Take the Chance. WHEELING, Jan. 17. The newspaper man who wrote the Wheeling story does not have 'proper respect. for an eminent American woman." a.Id Prince Kleuwha, heir to the throne of Korea, who returned to Delaware, O., to take" up his studies In English at the college there.- ' "Why should I want to get married?" he continued. "I would want to know the young lady more than six months and I would want to become familiar with her temper and her habits before making her -my wife. Besides, I could not marry her If I wished and if she had my consent, for the laws of Korea would net permit me to have an American girl for a wife." ' Prince Kieuwha asserted that his marriage Vlth Miss Angle Graham or any other American girl would cause him to lose his right of succession to the throne of Korea and he denied that'he had told Miss Graham that he would make such a sacrifice for her He said that he greatly admired her, but that he had taken only a friendly interest In her. . His attachment for Miss Graham Is evidently deeper than he cares to admit, however, for he had been her escort at all the fashionable functions In Delaware flr.ee he met her and when she came home to spend the holidays with her father. Rev. C. B. Graham, pastor, of the North Street Methodist Episcopal church, he followed her here." ---. " V . , The Prince says be regrets the publicity of the matter on account of the yoUr.s lady, but does not care for hlmselfi' |