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JAPS WIN GRAETEST NAVAL
BATTLE IN HISTORY OF WORLD.
Togo Sleeps Russian Fleet From
The Sea, Sinks Over 20 Battle¬
ships and Captures Admiral
and 3,000 Men.
All authentic news now coming
from the East tends to prove and
make greater the annihilating vic¬
tory of the Japauese over the Rus¬
sians 111 the greatest naval battle
the world has ever known which
occurred last Saturday, Sunday
and Monday, and, in fact, is yet in
progrts-, because the Japs are still
pursuing the few disabled Russian
ships which succeeded in making
a temporary escape from the des¬
tructible slaughter.
With every ship of Rear Admir¬
al Nebogutoff’s reinforcing divi¬
sion either sent to the bottom or
forced to strike its flag, and only
six of Rojestvenski’s original 16
fighting ships absent from the list
of the vessels sunk or captured,
and with the Japanese pursuit still
contiuu’ng no naval authority has
the temerity to dream that Russia
can again attempt to wrest the
mastery of the sea from Japan in
the present war.
The captured warships alone will
furnish Japan with ready .made
reinforcements, which will be more
than a match for the Fourth Pacific
squadron now about to sail for
Cronstadt.
Even now it is impossible to es
timate the loss the Russians have
sustained, but the money value of
battleships and munitions is placed
-at more than two hundred|million
du’iars.
Among the vessels known to be
sunk are three battle ships, one
oast defence armor clad, six crui
hers, two special service ships and
three torpedo boat destroyers, be-
11.4 Per Cent. Cut in Acreage.
Washington, June 2.—The fol¬
lowing bulletin on the condition of
the cotton crop was issued by the
department of agriculture today:
Returns t« the chief of the bu¬
reau of statistics of the department
of agriculture show the total area
planted in cotton . in tho United
States up to May 25 to be about
28.120,000 arcres, a decrease of
about 8 ,010,000 acres, or 11.4 per
cent from the total acreage planted
Inst year.
The average condition of the
growing crop on May 25 was 77.2
as compa ed with 83 on May 25,
1904 ; 74.1 at the correopunding
date in 1898 and a 10-year average
of 85.3.
The percentage of decreases in
acreage in the different states (the
comparison being with tho total
area planted last season) is as lol
lows :
Virginia.............. ux
North Carolina,.......
South Carolina........ L-4
Georgia...............
Florida,............. 10
Alabama,............ 8
Mississippi,........... 12
Louisiana,............ 14
Texas, ................ 12
Arkansas,............ 15
Tennessee,.......... . 10
Missouri,............. 14
Oklahoma,........... 11
Indian Territory...... • * • .. 10
The condition of the crop by
States on May 25 was as follows :
Virginia,.. .•..... 87
North Carolina,., 83
‘~outh Carolina, . 78
Georgia,.... 84
Florida..... • • • t ..... 88
Alabama,..... ..... 87
Mississippi,..... 73
Louisiana....... 73
Texas,.. . .... 69
Arkansas,...... 73
Tennessee,..... . 86
Missouri,...... 84
Oklahoma,..... nr C/J
Indian Territory GO
castohia.
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THE GEORGIA ENTERPRISE. COVINGTON, GA., FRIDAY MORNING.
sides many smaller ships. Among
those captured are three battle
ships, two coast defense armor
clads, ”ne special service ship, one
destroyer, with Admiral Nebogatoff
and 3 000 prisoners.
Private advices are eaid to have
reach-*! St. Petersburg from Vlad
iyostok, according to which Ro
jestvensky is alive, but he had a
narrow escape, He is said to have
transferred his flag from the Kuiaz
Sou va-«>ff to one of the battleships
subsequently sunk, and that he
was wounded and picked up by a
torpedo boat.
It is believed that several other
of the many disabled Russian ships
sunk while fleeing as they appear¬
ed to be 100 seriously injured to
reach port.
The news seems to indicate that
Admiral 'J oga set a terrible death
trap for the combined Russian
squadrons and then patiently wait¬
ed for them to walk into it.
The Japanese navy appears to
have come out of the coflict with¬
out any material injury, but it is
probable that they must have lost
some of their small torpedo boats
of which they had a large number.
It is estimated that between four
and eight thousand Russian sailors
were drowned,
The news from nearly all foreign
capjtols indicates that those fami
liar with the game of war believe
that his complete victory will
cause peace to follow speedly as
Russia is now helpless both on
land and sea.
The battle occurred in the straits
of Korea, near Japan, aud the most
powerful and effective ships of
Rojestvensky are now shattered
and are either flying the Japanese
flag or resting peacefully on the
bottom of the briny deep.
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without relief. Only three bottles of
Foley’s Kidney Cure made me a well
man.” Sold by Brooks A Smith.
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T wo through trains per day. The
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Mr. J. W. Turner, of Truhart, Va sa}s
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Echoes From The Peess.
Clark Howell’s friends should
see to it that Sidney Tapp does not
align himself with ‘ their campaign, y *
. , he sa>s he , will not support
since
Hoke Smith. Sidney has been
tried as a leader and has been
found wanting— Valdosta Times.
Then try him as a lunatic, we
believe he will meet the require¬
ment.—Fitzgerald Enterprise.
If Hoke Smith enters the race
for governor, Mr. Cleveland and
Judge Parker ought to come down
and make speeches for him.—Dub¬
lin Courier Dispatch.
As a friend of Hoke Smith’s we
make . all . this
in seriousness pio
position to the Courier Dispatch,
that we will use our best efforts to
the . of Judge Parker
secure services
and ex-President Cleveland, if he
will make a conscientious effort to
secure the services of Mary Ellen
Lease and Coin Harvey for his
candidate. Precisely the same
reason exists in both suggestions.
What say you Editor Stanley?—
Fitzgerald Enterprise.
If Hoke Smith makes the race
for governor he will have the rail¬
road corporations and machine
politicians to fight. That much
we believe will not be disputed.—
Fitzgerald Enterprise.
If cotton gets to 10 cents next
full, says an exchange, the slate
makers will have to make room
for Harvie Jordan somehow or
other.—Madisonian.
And now comes Col. Sydney C.
Tapp, who covets the fame of a
joint debate with Hon, Hoke
Smith. This is one of the amus¬
ing incidents of the campaign.—
Madisonian,
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The Better Way.
Thera is many a rest In the road
of life.
If we only would stop to take it,
And many a tone from the better
land
If the querulous heart would
wake it.
To the sunny soul that is full of
hope
And whose beautiful trust ne’er
faileth,
The gross is green and the flowers
are bright,
Tho’ the wintry storm prevaiJetb
Better to hope when the clouds
hang low
And keep the eye still lifted,
For the bright warm sun will soon
peep through
When the ominous clouds are
rifted.
For there was never a day without
a night,
Nor an evening without a morn
And the darkest hour, as the prov¬
erb goes,
Is the hour before the dawning.
Better to weave m the web ol life
A bright and golden filling,
And do God s will with a ready
heart,
And hands that are swift and
willing,
Than to snap the delicate slender
threads
Of our curious lives assunder,
And then blame Heaven lor the
tangled ends
And sit and grieve and wonder.
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STRANGE JAPANESE BELIEF.
Woman Trptfieo the Earth aa«l Haa
the Skr, Sar* » Kentuckian.
“Man Is the sky; woman is the
Mrth ” Thus John P. Starks of Louis
ville, Ky„ recently expressed one
gtran g e belief of the Japanese. He
an d his wife a few days ago returned
from tour of the globe, says a Louis- I
a
«P ecU1 despatch to the Cincinnati
Enquirer. Mr. Starks used this obser¬
vation, made by the Japs. Mr. Starks
is one of the most prominent business
men of Louis ville. He said:
“Ninety-five per cent of the Japanese
belong to the peasant class. The poor
exist on 2 or 3 cents of our money per
day. Their diet is rice and dried fi6h.
The Buddhists are vegetarians. The
Japanese seem happy and contented.
Homelike conditions do not exist as
here. Women are regarded as man’s
equal. The Japanese are supersti
{j ous They are religious because they
think it promotes business The Japa
nese are •istianized.
They are theoretically Buddhists and .
shintoists. Shintoism is ancestor wor
ship and worship of patriotism. The
Ja P anese are greatest skeptics on
earth today. They do not trust each
other.
“As a nation the Japauese are mak¬
ing wonderful strides. Officially they
are honest. As soldiers they are the
greatest on earth. An American ad¬
miral whom I met told me. ‘Man for
man, they are the greatest soldiers on
earth.’
“All Japanese are fatalists. They do
not fear death. They are patriotic to
a degree that is fanatical. A dead
soldier elicits all their praise. A battle
scarred veteran does not arouse them.
They honor the dead; the living, to
them, are a mere circumstance. The
nation is everything; the individual is
nothing.
"Japanese are not to be trusted when
it comes to a close proposition. For
instance, in Yokohama, where we spent
a great deal of time, there the Chinese
are tellers in banks. The Chinese are
the best artisans, clerks and work
men.
"The clothes worn by the Japanese,
I should Judge, cost about tlO cents.
The Japanese, as a race, are bare¬
footed and bareheaded. I saw’ them
naked in the fields.”
Mr. Starks said that he knew the
Japanese to be patriotic to the extent
that they would commit suicide (hara
kiri) before yielding to a foe.
A ROSE FOR MOURNING.
Savannah I'eUdler Develops a CoaJ
Rlaek Flower.
Mourning roses may become popular
now that Dennis Tapley of Savannah,
Ga., a cripple who peddled key rings
in the streets and whose hobby was the
cultivation of flow’ers, lias developed a
coal black variety, according to a Sa¬
vannah dispatch, that experts say is a
■wonder. i
For ages ^rturalists have been trying
to produce nlblack rose, but never at¬
tained their object. Tapley now de¬
clares that by bis method lie lias per¬
fected a bud with petals as black as a
raven’s wing.
This, he asserts, he does without the
use of chemicals. He has named the
rose the Mourning, and he says it is
bound to bring him wealth.
“Alice nine” a Fad.
It will bo a case of blues with more
than one girl this season when she
learns that all the latest costumes, in¬
cluding hats and hosiery, are of a de¬
cidedly bluish color, says the New York
Press. How disheartened she will be If
in a moment of rashness she fins lis¬
tened to the early predictions of fash
ion and ordered Innumerable fluffy
muslins and gowns of shimmering silk,
of rose or heliotrope hue! It will mean
that either she must procure an entire
new outfit or endure being called "un
fashionable.” Of course this suits the
dressmakers and dealers in such mate¬
rials, for no sooner does a style or color
become in the least degree popular
than they straightway look cross eyed
at It and rack their brains to conjure
up something as yet undreamed of by
society to take its place. The new
shade Is called Alice blue In honor of
Miss Roosevelt, who has a decided Ilk
Ing for It. and Is betwixt and between
a baby blue and a navy. To the girl
with eyes to match it Is exceedingly
becoming.
Color Coro For All Him.
A new cult has sprung up In Boston
the home of cults and fads, and the
chief apostle is Miss Flora Macdonald,
a lecturer on art and designer of stain¬
ed glass windows, says a Boston dis¬
patch to the New York Tribune. The
new cult, which may be termed the
color cure for want of a better name,
teaches that color will cure all mortal
Ills if properly used. Are you a nerv¬
ous wreck? Select new wall paper,
win back health and put the doctors
out of business. Has Cupid passed you
by? Select decorations of red and see
how quickly Iip will respond, if hus¬
band’s love has grown cold surround
him with restful greens, optimistic yel¬
lows, Inspiring blues and keep out of
the divorce court. Miss Macdonald
traces the origin of many mental and
physical ills to the wrong use of col
ors and finds the cure in the substitu¬
tion of correct colors.
Squirrel r* « Tinnier,
C. B. Edwards of Raleigh, N. C M has
offered the gardener at the capital a
number, of Japan walnut slips. He has
a Japan walnut tree in his yard, and
this was visited by a squirrel from the
eapitol grounds, says the Raleigh News
and Observer. The squirrel ate most
of the walnuts, but burled a number
close to the rose bushes in Mr Ed¬
wards' yard. These produced the slips
that Mr. Edwards now propose® to
give swsy.
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