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DOUGLASVILLE, GEORGY, MAY 18,1905.
Une Dollar a Year
feature of the
BATTLE OF MUKDEN
Brave Stand of General Nambu’s
Men at Likwanpau.
"WHI
IE JAPS WON, ONE TO FOUB
■ Isst Cartritlgfe Fired, Even That
Taken From Russian Dead and
Abounded, bat Men ot Nippon Would
K «* Motor Okoahi, While
Seeking Aid, Was Mortally Wound-
, . Sd—Wrote Note, Then Shot Hlmaelt.
The Tokyo correspondent of the Lon
don Times gives a feature of the battle
of Mukden which must rank as one of
the greatest feats of arms in history.
The Japanese official report of March
7 contained the following:
“This day our troops to’ok about two-
thirds of Likwanpau. In the afternoon
u <’i vision of the enemy made a counter
attack, blit after a severe tight our
men held their ground.”
These few words refer to one of the
most desperate conflicts of the war.
Likwanpau is a village nine miles west
of Mukden. Its capture formed part of
the programme assigned to General'
Oku’s army of forcing the Russians
back from all tbelr positions southwest
<of Mukden, thus masking the turning
movement of General Nogi’s army.
A brigade of the Nagoya division,
under command of General Nambu, at-
k tacked Likwanpau. The district is flat,
affording no cover, and the ground,
frozen hard, defied intrenchment tools,
A rush during darkness offered the
only hope of success.
The Russian forces comprised four
army corps and one division. General
Nambu’s brigade ultimately found It
self struggling against a whole army
gjBrps, being outnumbered four to one,
(nafrgfhen nevertheless persevered In
their attack, forcing the enemy from
house to house until two-thirds of the
place^was In their hands. They then
6aw ^Semselves threatened with a com
plete failure of ammunition. They had
used every cartridge In the pouches of
their fallen comrades and had used
even the rifles and ammunition of the
enemy’s dead and wounded. A mes
sage must be carried to the division
headquarters, but the regiment was
surrounded. Its fellow regiment, up
on which the maintenance of communi
cation dgppndcfl r had been borne haqjj
by sheer weight of numbers.
i-ArAem&ga frLm the Ajoveg
In mjtYiefltb,
nouehi was wounded In three plates
yet, supporting himself on bis sword,
be called for volunteers. Three men
dashed off by different routes to sum
mon succor, among them Major Okoshi,
He galloped safely through the village,
but o:i emerging he fell fatally hurt b"
slirapnel. It had been his hope to re,
join liis comrades after delivering his
message to General Nambu, or at least
to meet his fate on his return journey,
but now lie saw himself struck down
in the act of riding away from the
scene of the combat. Taking paper
and pencil from his pocket, he wrote
as follows:
To General Nambu (Testament of Major
Okoshi):
Sir—That instead of fighting side by side
with the colonel of my regiment and Its
battalion commanders I have left the bat
tlefield alone Is because, by desire of mj
colonel, X was about to report the state
of affairs to yon, I did not disregard the
dangers on tha way: but, being unable
to witness the straits to which my colonel
and my comrades were reduced. It was
my purpose to adventure my life In order
to convey the facts to the commander of
the brigade so that some means of suceor
might be continued, after which I Intend
ed to return to the field and share the fate
of my brother officers and men. But I
havfe been wounded on the way, and, to
my bitter regret, I have failed to accom.
pilsh my purpose. Therefore I am about
to die In order to rejoin beyond the grave
my comrades and soldiers under my com
mand My right arm being wounded
however, I cannot use my sword and must
therefore have recourse to my pistol. 1
beg you to pardon this now. For all yoyr
kindnesses through many years I thank
vou with a sincere heart, and I pray you
may acquire lasting military fame. Being
exhausted. I find difficulty In writing, so
I ask you to excuse my brevity.
l as* you W OKOSHI. Major.
Lying near was a soldier who was
severely wounded. Major Okoshi In
trusted the letter to him and then shot
himself.
Ammunition and re-enforcements ar
rived in time, but the casualties In the
two regiments had been 106 officers
and 4,000 of the rank and file. Of the
enemy more than 8,000 lay killed or
wounded. The Nagoya division bad
done its duty nobly; for, though It had
not driven back the enemy, it had held
in check a greatly superior force,
which, if released, would have imper
iled the turning movement of General
Nogi’s army and might thus have
changed the issue of the battle.
A kanjo was subsequently handed to
the division by Field Marshal Oyama.
It ran thus:
“On the 7th of March and continu
ously until the 8th at Likwanpau you
successfully resisted an attack by a
force of the enemy many times your
superior in numbers. In the desperate
fteht with the numerous battalions sta
tioned to guard Likwanpau you were
not deterred by heavy casualties and
inflicted enormous
losses on the en-
ROCKEFELLER AND HARPER.
How the Oil King Became Interested
In Education In Chicago.
Dean Hodges of the Episcopal Theo
logical school at Cambridge, Mass.,
tells in the May Outlook with some hu
mor of the way in which Dr. Harper
interested Mr. Rockefeller in the cause
of education:
They have a song among the univer
sity students the first lines of which
are as follows:
There Is a varsity out In the west,
Founded by capital, backed by the best;
Headed by wisdom that knows no bounds.
She’s making a w^iderful show,
And others are longing to share the lot
Of Chicago.
CHORUS.
John D. Rockefeller, wonderful man is he,
Gives all .his spare change to the tf. of C.
He keeps the ball a-rolling In our great
varsity,
He pays Dr. Harper to help us grow
sharper,
To the glory of U. of C.
These two eminent persons, the man
of capital and the man of wisdom, be
came acquainted when Dr. Harper was
the young and enterprising professor
of Hebrew at Morgan Park seminary.
Morgan Park is a suburb of Chicago.
The seminary there was a Baptist in
stitution, Young Mr, Harper gave it
an international reputation by the en
thusiastic manner In which he taught
the Hebrew language. He Invented a
new way of learning Hebrew; he es
tablished a correspondence school; he
edited a Hebrew magazine; he intro
duced Hebrew into Sunday schools and
women’s clubs, and he made Hebrew
popular. This was a feat which had
not been accomplished since the fall of
Jerusalem. Incidentally the Semitic
department and the seminary In gen
eral needed money. Mr. Harper used
to go into Chicago to get It.
This was a task which he hated and
for which even now, with all his mar
velous success, hp has no liking. Upon
the occasion of these financial forays
he was in the habit of shutting himself
up in a room for a silent hour of wres
tling with his spirit, After that ex
perience he went out Invincible, This
business of raising money brought him
into relation with Mr. Rockefeller, Mr,
Harper showed him that there is no
better use for a rich man’s money than
co put it into a theological school, an
admirable and true statement. Thus
Mr. Rockefeller became Interested in
education In Chicago.
CASTRO’S PERSONALITY
Characteristic Glimpses of Ven
ezuela’s President.
FOND OF DANCING AND GAY LIFE
emv and finally, frustrating bis design,
enabled the Third army to successfully
carry out its turning operation. I con-
vour achievement has been
truly great, and I confer on you this
k This'' is the division which had al-
hill by wading tnroug hlgh .
tacl ; th f e th elanchau isthmus. Every
lands of the TC kanj0 for
ftffiSt atSi but none so well
J the two regiments of General Nam-
Jiu’s brigade.
TOGO AND HIS FIGHTERS.
comr
Japanese Admiral tlie Idol of
Men—Zeal of the Officers.
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iviffgprWIii.Ji'iai<iveli Ms U
overcome his many difficulties and met
his great responsibilities; says Lieuten
ant Commander Albert Gleaves, U. S.
TSi^m the New York World. Mr. Wil
son, the English critic, says of him, re
ferring to the action of Aug. 10, ’“He
could not open his attack impetuously,
is a fighter would love to do,” and
thinks that In the second phase of the
battle he was prevented from closing
by the ulterior necessity of keeping
his fleet interposed between the Rus
sians and Kaiochau and Vladivostok.
Togo is said to be the idol of his men,
and his beautiful and pathetic speech
to his torpedo -boat officers on the eve
jf their historic midnight attack at
Port Arthur will never be forgotten.
And his men are worthy of their lead
er. A recent writer has said of the
Japanese navy:
“The officers are very eager and
quick to learn and can grasp at once
the good points to be adopted and the
bad ones to be avoided, but perhaps
their chief characteristic is Intense de
votion to their profession, In which all
their interests seem wrapped up. The
Japanese naval officer is as keen about
and as interested in the exercises of
peace, naval maneuvers, etc., as If at
war and feels intensely the praise or
blame of his superiors, the latter of
which is never withheld if deserved.
The warrant officers, petty officers and
men are as good as can be found any
where and emulate their superiors in
zeal and devotion to the service. They
are a sturdy, well built lot of men and
very active and capable of great en
durance.” '
Storehouse for Sounds.
The Vienna Academy of Science has
decided to set aside a room for the pur
pose of establishing phonographic ar
chives, in which are to be preserved the
results of recent scientific researches,
says a special cable dispatch from Vi
enna to the Philadelphia Press. One
section will be devoted exclusively to
the phonographic records of all the lan
guages and principal dialects of the
world. Another section will contain
records of the best musical productions.
Man of Small Stature Who Rules
With an Iron Grip, All His Enemies
Being: Dead, Imprisoned or Exiled.
When Boots Were New to Him.
Strange Impromptu Balls at Ca
racas—Popular With the Masses.
There .seems to be hardly a month In
which his excellency Cipriano Castro,
president of Venezuela, is not In the
black books of one or other of the
world’s powers, says a correspondent
of the London Mail.
They told me In La Guayra, the port
of Caracas, that this now notorious au
tocrat was originally a muleteer and
cattle smuggler down In the state of
Los Andes. But he suddenly appears
In the Caracas hall of congress in pat
ent leather boots, which so amazed Se-
por Castro himself (they wore no boots
where he came from) that he was
obliged to take them off and put them
on the desk In front of him!
On my way to see the president I no
ticed an ascent on the tortuous journey
of nearly 4,0C0 feet. Caracas has an al
most perfect climate and a population
of about 120,000. I was amused to see
in all the big office buildings the notice
displayed, “Politics are not allowed to
be talked here.”
Castro Is paramount now and has
been for years. All his enemies are
killed or Imprisoned In the dungeons
tinder Maracaibo's old fort or else ex
iled in Bogota, Paris, New York or
London. How Castro started with an
“army” pf twenty Three muleteers and
smugglers; bow this force grew and
grew; how he directed battles from a
horse litter Where be was confined with
broken legs—these and other episodes
are but incidents In this wonderful
man’s career.
Everybody in the town speaks of him
with bated breath—some of them pret
ty boldly, for he was away in his little
mountain resort of La Victoria, where
he utterly disregarded cablegrams
about International blockades and such
like boresome things on the principle
that “they will arrange themselves If
-they- are let alone.’.’ Indeed, the presi
dent will often disappear altogether,
Ig&yinj/HAaddress at the American le
SH .
fl^glVfcVtBeffi no emfot'cbi?-
certs, dances and bullfights. He fre
quently retires to bed at 5 o’clock in
the morning and receives visitors at
midday In his nightdress. He Is a thick
set, keen eyed man, much below middle
height and with his Indian blood show
ing most plainly. I do not think he is
an inch over five feet, and he is stoop
ing at that.
And yet t>ere is the man who has
conquered a country with a handful of
mule drivers and has given sleepless
nights to the diplomats of the world.
He asks all his visitors many questions
about the navy and army of their Coun
try and fully believes that the one war
ship he has seen In his life, the Presi-
dente Sarmiento of the Argentine Re
public, Is the most powerful battleship
In the world.
During our long and rambling con
versation President Castro did not
conceal his contempt for England and
Germany, and I afterward heard he
was unaware of the very existence of
India and Australia. Often he will
shave and dress himself In the presence
of his visitor and then take the latter
for a walk round the town when he
has satisfied himself in his mirror that
he looks his best in frock coat and silk
hat.
So you see there Is no “side” about
Venezuela’s autocrat. Any one may
approach him. He does, however, car
ry a revolver In the outside breast
pocket of his frock coat An assassin
tried to shoot him once, but the presi
dent lamed the man with a well aimed
shot and then sent his own doctor to
wait on the fellow.,
Often he will Invite casual passers-
by Into the palace and give Impromptu
balls, in which the stranger is amazed
to see poor Indians in canvas clothes
little better than rags and rough san
dals side by side with brilliant uni
forms, gold lace and orders. It Is al
ways noticeable at puch functions in
the palace that the president dances
with short women and girls, for he is
very sensitive about his diminutive
stature.
President Castro Is above all things
fond of pleasure. An American officer
on one occasion took him an important
JAPAN'S NAVY SUBISRINE.
The third section will contain phono
graphic records of the speeches made telegram to his mountain retreat and
by the greatest celebrities of our times, found him at an open air picnic danc-
Jeweled Theater Caps.
Society women In Paris are begin
ning to reconcile the decorative Instinct
with the dictates of good feeling by
the use at the theater of close fitting
jeweled caps in lieu of bulging con
structions of flowers and feathers, says
a special Paris cable dispatch to the
New York World.
Trackless Car Dine,
A trackless interurban line, it is re
ported, will soon be established be
tween Buchanan, Mich., and Plymouth,
Ind. The cars used upon this line will
be of large size and run without the
use of track or trolley, a gasoline en
gine supplying the motive power.
details of New Boats Hi l>y John
P. Holland.
The two new submarine^is for the
Japanese navy which w4- designed
by John T. Holland of Nark, N. J.,
and built under his direon* are not
what are generally knowns"Holland
submarines, of which thwt-ussians
have five at Vladivostok a: the Japa
nese several at Nagasaki-illt are en
tirely new creations, vasUjmproved.
capable of double the specof ihe old
style of boats and equlpi^. with an
instrument which, it is decked, makes
submarine vision as aeewte as'that
In the open air, says thCNew York
Herald. ■- .MlEpte
' Mr. Holland declares <qdja#caljy
that the submarines whuibear his
name are not built accowlg to his
plan at all, but from pltel which he
condemned years ago rbsr testing
them and finding them to i so faulty
as to be practically useless,-,
His new boats, says the Jventor, are
seventy-five and eighty-seifc feet long
respectively and of'sevt feet eight
draft. Each has an inflated horse
power of 300, one torpeditube. and is
capable of traveling sixtpn knots an
hour under water and fteen above
water.
“When I built the first Jolland boat
It had an engine of fort-five horse
power and a speed of nip knots Sub
merged,” said Mr. HolUsd- “Then I
built another model and feted it in the
navy department tank in Washington.
I found It such a flat, uBjualifled fail
ure that I abandoned It.
“The young lawyer whi acted as en
gineer of the Holland*edrpany, acting
Upon advice of some miguided niava}
officer who knew even l«s of subma
rlnes than he did, insistd upon using
the plans I had condemn-d, and tha, so
called Holland boat of tciay is the re
suit. It, like all other sulmarines built
j-o date, Is clumsy, cuubersome and
practically useless for tny purpose.
They lack the necegsarj speed and.
what Is worse, are a soivce of danger
to those manning 1 hem, for with the
Sighting appliances in up it Is Impbs
sible to judge distanugs c'<rrec>Uy.
“I have with the aid an optician
solved the simple probtm of seeing
correctly under water, Ind this, 1 with
the increased speed of ji new boat,
should make It an import’ at factor In
warfare. I am preparing plans now for
the construction of a (submarine of
2,500 horsepower which should, travel
fully twenty-five (knots in hour. The
future submarine will the place
of the torpedo boat, f .two
which are about to!go \Ifi.
a.
iMr, Holland declinesrSp discldSe^the
nature of the instrumew . by which op
erators of his new style boats are ena
bled to see accurately urder water nor
will he tell where, when or for whom
his proposed 2,500 horsepower boat is
to be built.
JAPAN'S WAR CAPTIVES
Th.e Burden Imposed by Keep
ing Russian Prisoners.
heavy expenditukes entailed
Prices ot Meat and Vegetables Have
Nearly Doubled In the bast Few
Months—Ciar’s Soldiers Hearty Eat
ers, and It Is Well Nigh Impossible
to Make Them Observe Sanitary
Precautions.
Aside from the tremendous burden
of" the active campaign itself*- Japan
must find herself saddled with a heavy
indirect expense in caring for her Rus
sian prisoners, says the Shanghai Mer
cury. Already there are at the different
prison camps—that is, the places which
have been chosen as headquarters for
receiving the prisoners — some 80,000
Russian captives, officers, privates and
supernumeraries (these last, including
a few women and several children), all
of whom have to be clothed, fed and
guarded, and if all Qf the Port Arthur
garrison who are not to be permitted
to return to Russia on parole are taken
to Japan this number will be very ma
terially increased, without taking into
consideration any more who may be
captured in other engagements. At
JOHN PAUL JONES TRIBUTE.
A Welcome to America’s Famed Na
val Warrior.
Welcome, oh, sacred dust, the deep blue
sea
That rolls between thy chosen land and
thee
No barrier proves, nor time nor birth nor
race
Can bar thy ashes from a resting place
Beneath fair freedom’s soil that e’er shall
be
Kept sacred In this land of liberty.
Though years and years have rolled their
cycles o’er
Our glorious land from east to western
shore,
And though to fall asleep from home thy
lot,
Thy name was ne’er and ne’er will be
forgot.
As through the stormy British channel s
foam ....
Thou comest (though long arfcexile
thy home)
Our flag” half mast, dip In old oceans
deep,
Whose restless waters round thy ashes
sweep.
Thy name emblazoned side by side shali
be
Deep carved on tablets of the brave and
free
With Washington and Lawrence, Gates
and Perry, too,
While stars shall glitter In the spangled
blue.
Will hear once more the ringing thundei
tones
And see again th’ Intrepid John Paul
Jones,
Cutlass In hand, shout In his daring
might:
"Surrender? No; I’ve not begun to fight!
“Colum
NOTES OFTHE RAILWAYS
Surprise Signal Tests For Engi
neers on Western Lines.
E00FLESS OBSERVATION CAES.
RABBITS TO RACE TRAINS.
Ex-
Minnenota Editor Develops an
citing Form of Sport.
Training jack rabbits to race against
a train is the latest fail of Norwood
Davies, managing editor of the Crook-
ston (Minn.) Times. While on a train
last summer Davies saw a large jack
rabbit running even With the train,
and
mi
self, says a CroolisTton (Sj|^g^r»peclal
dispatch to thel Post.
Since then he hast b^sji ^theritr 1 ^ like "
ly and large spe«i%w»' S and 4,3 s been
devoting much offhfe* ifae to training
the animals. Hd now has two jack
rabbits training so they obey his com
mands fairly well, and every fine day
when he has timie he lakes them out
and races thenj against incoming
trains. An assistant, stationed at the
end of the course, bafs the rabbits.
The speed of these animals is remark
able. So far it has beea impossible to
accurately time them, bat it is claimed
that they can negotiate a mile a min
ute.
As the train approaches the animals
become restless* and nervous and
prance about, much like running horses
at the start of a race. Up to the pres
ent time the rabbits hare been trained
to run only when a train Is approach
ing, but Mr. Davies anticipates rac
ing the jacks against Worses, (bicycles
and motor cars. 9
Ocean Liner Only Carried One Letter.
A curious result of the recent dislo
cation of the mall service between Aus
tralia and the United Kingdom Is
shown in the fact, says the London
Mail, that the mail taken to Adelaide _ _ _
by lie Orontes consisted of only one j tp e most skillful diplomats and men of
letter. That was registered. * the world.
ing under the trees with a lot of peas
ants and pretty girls.
“You cannot talk about business,” a
high officer said. “See, his excellency
Is dancing!” “Have you any notion,”
the American said ironically, “when
President Castro will stop dancing?”
Castro’s right hand man threw up his
arms with a gentle “Quien sabe, he
has been doing it for the last five
days.” Just then the president saw his
visitor and beckoned him to approach.
The girl hanging on his arm took the
most important telegram and read It,
whereupon Castro suddenly stopped
the band and made a magniloquent
speech about shedding his blood for the
“sacred soli of Bolivar,” and so on.
The girls shouted applause, while the
dancers banged empty beer bottles on
the tables to show their approval.
An amazing man truly! Knowing
nothing of military science, he has yet
carried everything before him in bat
tle. Though he has never left his own
country, yet he has got the better of
A Floating Hospital.
The health dejjartmes of New York
will soon be in possession of a luxuri
ous boat intended for sYfloating hospi
tal, says the Philadelpm Public Ledg
er. It will be fitted tap with every
thing the sick can reqffite and will car
ry about 160 patients. 1 ’: In case of an
epidemic the number can be'doubled
without serious j crowding. There will
be wards for any kind of contagious
disease, constructed soys to be Isolat
ed when necessajry. Tlie boat Will cost
some $70,000 ahd i is built either for
shallow or for deep water.
Leisure Time of Japanese Generals.
During the winter j ist passed Ja
pan’s generals along thi Shakjhe river,
In Manchuria, spent taeir time vari
ously. “General! Nodzu,” according to
Japanese newspapers, 1 “studied type
writing. General Kuroki kept barn
yard fowls. During the Heikoutai en
gagement General Kudama ; scarcely
slept at all for a whole week, but did
not seem one whit the worse for his
experience.” General Oyamg was re
ported as- being “the sauie robust, mer
ry hearted gentleman 4 s ever.!’
j l_ 4
Forty Fear Line In Life Insurance.
The Sun Insurance company of Can
ada reports this; result.of an investiga
tion to find out at what age men take
out life insurance, says the Insurance
Press. Of a group of 4,892 policies,
comprising three principal pjans, only
896 were taken after lie age of forty,
less than 10 pet* cent.
moderate estimate these three items of
primary expense—namely, food, cloth
ing and guards—cannot be much less
than 50 sen (a coin worth about four
fifths of a cent) a day, and at that rate
the total which Japan will have to pro
vide for one year’s maintenance of her
prisoners of War is upward of 5,000,000
yen (a coin worth about 73 cents), and
there is the disagreeable fact confront
ing the Japanese government that it is
probably impossible for it to use the
labor of those prisoners In any advan
tageous way.
No wonder, then, that the people of
Japan are grumbling at this heavy ex
pense that Is added to their already
onerous burden. The legitimate ex
penses of the war they bear cheerfully
as a matter of principle, although these
have already reached a sum quite twice
as great as that which was announced
by the government at the commence
ment of hostilities, hut there is notice
able in the vernacular press a disposi
tion to ask if the authorities are not
needlessly coddling the prisoners, doing
t^a much for them In a sentimental
pelied to do something that shall at
least contribute toward their keep, if
not pay the _whole expense -thereof.
Yet there is no open revolt at- the- ex
pressed intention of their government
to do what it can to make the Russian
prisoners at least comfortable.
Russians justly have the reputation
of being hearty eaters, and they are
not accustomed to the simple diet which
is satisfying to the Japanese, so that
e-ven If the prisoners aye kept upon a
diet that to them might seem almost
abstemious the cost of It would quick
ly run away with three times the sum
that Is sufficient to feed a Japanese
prisoner. In the Japanese Jails It can
hardly be necessary to spend more than
10 sen a day for the food of a native
prisoner, who gets no meat, but little
fish and absolutely nothing In the way
of what a native of that land would
call “luxuries.” With the Russian pris
oners it is very different.
To keep them well they must have a
good deal of meat and other things that
are never dreamed of In arranging the
fare in Japanese prisons at ordinary
times. To such an extent is this true
that the prices of meat and vegetables
have nearly doubled in the last few
months. So that it will be seen at once
30 sen a day for food Is not. an ex
travagant sum to allow per capita to
those Russian prisoners.
This leaves only 20 sen for clothing,
medical attendance and expense of
guards, a sum scarcely sufficient, and it
Is quite likely that the estimate of 50
sen a day will be almost doubled when
the bills are actually settled. Besides
this burden of expense there is staring
Japan in the face the grave danger to
her people of an outbreak of disease
among the Russian prisoners. In spite
of every reasonable effort on the part
of the Japanese guards it Is well nigh
impossible to make the Russian prison
ers take necessary sanitary precau
tions.
If an epidemic of dysentery or small
pox or something f even worse should
break out at any one of the prison
camps it will have sad effects upon tbe
Japanese people in the neighborhood
and may Spread all over the country,
and with the approach of warm weath
er that danger will become a positive
menace. It would be interesting to
know just how the Japanese prisoners
In Russian hands are faring. Exact
knowledge is not available, and, be
sides, the number cannot be compar
able with that of the Russian prisoners
in Japan, for no such disaster as the
surrender of Port Arthur has befallen
the Japanese. It Is certain, however,
that a considerable number of Japa
nese have been taken by the Russians,
but where are they and how have they
been treated? The disagreeable Im
pression created at the time of the sur
render of Port Arthur, when the dis
parity between the number of Japa
nese prisoners actually accounted for
with the number that must have fall
en into Russian hands became evident
has not yet been removed and Is not
likely to be effaced.
Then welcome sacred ashes to
bia’s shore!”
Thy prized remains to mingle evermore
With freedom’s soil. While dynasties and
thrones .
Shall be as things forgotten John Paul
Jones
Will be remembered—long as morning red
Shall blaze the east and sparkles over
head
Bright stars In heaven’s dome of azure
hue, ... .
Where floats on high “the red, white and
the blue.”
—H. T. Eckert In Philadelphia Press.
TALL PILE FOR SMALL LOT
Denver and Rio Grande’s Scheme to
Let Passengers See Lofty Scenery.
Barnurn’s Old Sleeping Car Still on
the Rails—Wireless Telegraphy on
Moving Trains — Smoking Customs
on Mexican Railroads.
•The Cincinnati, New Orleans and
Texas Pacific railroad has been sub-
- di 1 *V
surprise” signal tests,. with "the pu)-a>
pose of determining and improving the*
standard of efficiency and safety in
train operation on the line, says the
Railway Age. . The only warning
which the engineers had was contain-!
ed in a general circular, sent out prYor -
to the tests, urging all employees hot *
to rely on “customary practice” in Case
of doubt. The surprise tests not only
Included the use of the semaphore sig
nals, but whistle signals of all sorts,
placing of rear end flagmen^ torpedo
tests, burning^^jUwuwrthscsr^and safety--
signals of every kind.
Since the tests were inaugurated the
discipline of the enginemen has im
proved, and General Manager W. A.
Garrett is much gratified with the re
sults. The Queen and Crescent rail
road has appointed a train rule ex
aminer for each division, whose duty
it is to subject trainmen who fall in
signal tests to a rigid examination on
their knowledge of tlie'rules. Here
after the words “Safety Before Speed”
are to be stenciled in bright letters in
the cab of eve»y locomotive where the
engineer will constantly see them.
1
Toothpick the Name of Sixteen Story
Building For San Francisco.
“Deming’s toothpick” is what those
who have seen the elevation call the
tall, thin building which William H
Deming proposes to erect on the north
west corner of Grant avenue and Till
man alley, between Post and Sutter
streets, in San Francisco., Its prospec
tive owner accepts the designation with
pleasure, for the structure will not be
like anything else in San Francisco
The point to the toothpick is not oal,
its height, but the additional and more
wonderful faet that it will be only 36
by 25 feet in area, says the San Fran
’’in stllTWr'T»wp«fCt8 tbc'tiufitwng'
will be peculiar. For . instance, within
this extremely limited space room will
be found for two elevators, a sftaircase
and three offices on each of the fifteen
floors above the store on the ground
floor. Each of these stories will be ex
act replicas, and the offices on each will
measure respectively 11.3 by 16.6, 10.6
by 11.6 and 10.3 by 11.3.
It goes without saying that one and
all will have exterior light. Deming’s
toothpick will be of steel construction
and fireproof, with its walls in Califor
nia sandstone having a granite effect.
All this will be done for $75,000.
Five Hundred Aotoa In a Race.
In July 500 automobiles will be run
from Chicago to St. Paul and back,
The automobllists who will take part
in the run will be from Chicago, Cln
BLOW AT FOURTH OF JULY.
CliicaffO Professor Says Independence
Day Is Anar. 18.
The Fourth of July is not really In
dependence day, according to Profess
or John Franklin Jameson, head of the
history department of the University
of Chicago, says a Chicago dispatch.
By long research Professor Jameson
says he has found that the declaration
of the fathers was not signed on July 4.
“A big mistake has been made about
the signing of the declaration,” said
Professor Jameson the other day. “It
was decided on July 2 that a formal
declaration would be drawn up, but it
was not until forty-five days after
ward that the document was actually
drawn up and formulated. Our nation
al day should come on the 18th of Au
gust. The declaration was passed
around over the colonies to be signed.”
The Denver and Rio Grande Rail
road company is now building a num
ber of open top observation cars, to be
attached during the summer ^south’s to
daylignt trains running through the
Royal Gorge, Grand Canyon of the
Arkansas, Caififon of the Grand River
and the Black Canyon of the Gunnison.
These cars have a seating capacity
for seventy-two persons, low sides, but
no tops, being entirely open, thus giv
ing a free and unobstructed view of
the scenery of the Rocky mountains.
These’ cars will be completed and i>lac
ed in service not latSr than June 1 of
the present year.
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She cabdffse
v&Icb.
» the rrelght
passes Tina, Mo., each day is perhaps
th|e oldest car In use in Missouri,,says
the Tina <Mo:)- HetaFI. - About thirty y.
years ago it was a passenger coacbi^
but, being torn up In a wreck, ii^was
purchased by P. T. Barnum, the great
showman, who had it repaired and used
it as a sleeping ca.r on his show train.
After the death of Mr. Barnum the car
was purchased by the Burlington and
was put on the branch road which runs
from Carrollton to Laclede. Its ap
pearance shows that it is very old. It
is perhaps the oldest and has the most
remarkable history of any car in Mis
souri.
Among the interesting facts about
the new Pennsylvania railway tunnel
and terminal in New York are these,
says the Philadelphia Public Ledger:
Total cost, $60,000,000, in addition to
the $10,000,000 for the station site, on
which were about 300 dwellings; daily
train capacity 900; passenger accom
modation daily, 200,000; men at work,
about 10,000; time required for trip un
der the Hudson, two minutes. In pro
jecting this enterprise the engineers be
lieve they have solved all the problems
which baffled the most daring engineers
of twenty-three years ago.
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Tiny Steam Engine.
John H. Cunningham, a jeweler of
Eaton, Ind., has constructed what Is
believed to Be the smallest engine In
the world, says an Indianapolis dis
patch. It stands on a five cent piece,
and so small are some of its parts that
a magnifying glass Is necessary tf> dis
tinguish them. It is run by steam and
operates at a remarkable rate of speed.
The screws that hold the parts together
are made of needles, and the threads
are so fine as to defy the naked eye.
The boiler is made of a part of a
hand bicycle pump. The striking boxes
are packed with lint scraped from silk
thread, cutton being too coarse for the
purpose.
Novelty In Ply Paper.
Preparations are being made In York,
Pa., for the manufacture of an im
provement in fly paper which, it is
thought, will fill a long felt want, says
the Chicago Post. In this the comers
of the sheet are scored so that they
may be interlocked, and in this manner
a pan is formed which will prevent
much of the mischief which the old
form of fly paper is largely famous for.
For instance, if the paper blows from
its place on the table or window ledge
and falls on the floor the sticky side
cannot come in contact with the car
pet or furniture on which it may fall.
Perjury Said to Be Increasing.
In a decision handed down a few
days ago the supreme court of Kansas
took occasion to point out the far
reaching and deplorable consequences
of perjury. “It is the opinion of ob-
In Mexico the railroad authorities put
on Pullman cars for the fastidious who*
can afford to pay the charges and give
no attention to the conditions in the
common coaches, says the Philadelphia
Public Ledger. An official of the Rock
Island system says that on Mexican
lines “men, women and even children
smoke in every part and section of the
train except the Pullmans. The men
mostly smoke cigars, and the f women
and children of all ages inhale ciga
rettes.” The trainmen take It as 1 a mat
ter of course, although the tobacco
smoke* in every car would chokc^aur
American.
Experiments at Purdue university,
Indiana, have in view the use of wire--,
less telegraphy for running.-trains. The
idea is to enable a- train dispatcher to
communicate directly with the locomo
tive engineer at any time. Many of the
stops of a train are to enable the engi
neer to get orders through the* station
agent, and accidents have resulted
from a failure to stop for such orders.
Railway Carriages transformed into
ambulance compartments for the use
of passengers who are taken 111 have
been provided on the Prussian railways
for express routes.
Tree Culture In Western Kansas.
More than 10,000 trees will make
glad the rich tree barren plains of
Sherman county in Kansas this year,
says the Goodland News. These will
be the 1905 addition to the thousands
that already dot the fields and surround
the homes of our people. Tree culture
in western Kansas has passed the ex
perimental stage, and all doubt as to,
its practicability has passed away. I
People now buy trees not with the fear|
that it is a mere gamble, but from the:
standpoint of a gilt edged investment.!
They see that such improvements add!
A
servant and though rful lawyers,” said ! not only to the value of their farms,
clnnati, Louisville, ir>d»"P«poi<«, St tha court, ‘‘that perjury is increasing i but to the beauty and comfort of their
Louis, Omaha and elsewhere. at an alarming rate," _ ^ homes.
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