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The Sunny South la the oldest weekly paper of Literature.
Romance, Fadl and Vifllon in the South -£Z It Is now re»
Jlorcd to the original shape and wilt be published as for*
marly every week Founded In 1874 it grew until 7809,
when, as a monthly, its form was changed as an expert.
ment, for power, whether written in shining heaps of
gold, the fickle sands of politics, or the silent clamor
of literature. The man or the woman who is not
fighting in some manner, sometimes with self,
sometimes with real obstacles, sometimes with
wind-mills like Don Quixote, is not achieving.
Moreover, they are apt to be receding. It is im
possible to be stationary or neutral on the swift
current, of events. One must go backward or for
ward. For a time we may appear to be success-
hilly standing still, but the day will come when
we will discover the folly of any such supposition.
That is why, crudely stated, we have such an
intense sympathy with the epochal drama of the
Far East. We may deprecate the bloodshed, al
though it is doubtful if the old primeval bloot-lust
does not stir just a little with the thrill of the age
long battle-clash. Doubtless, our refined sensibili
ties, the product of centuries’ absence from the
stricken field, have bred a repugnance to scenes in
which cruelty and intense suffering must figure
more or less. But the dispatches which relate
glibly the death and maiming of 60,000 men do not
convey a very sanguinary impression to the mind,
meat It now returns to its original formation as a j because of tllC distance from which tllCV COIllC. W C
mg its most promising period in the past, j 0,ll . v take in the vivid, dramatic recital, and pity,
applaud or thrill as the chapters vary or the skill
of the narrator moves us.
Some day this wonderful fighting instinct um
bo wholly confined to so-called peaceful pursuits.
At present, that day appears but vaguely on the
horizon.
The Fighting Instinct.Myth
of Simple Life
AX V million pairs of eyes-have meta
phorically followed the maneuvers
of the Russian and Japanese fleets
for the last last seven months, and
as many minds are now busily' con-i
structing the stupendous battlej
which occurred recently in the Ko
rean strait, from what little tantai-
izating news lias trickled past the
censor at Tokio. Every-man and
bov, and every woman, lor that
matter, with the slightest claim to
imagination, is at this moment vis
ualizing the vivid and terrible
scenes when the hostile fleets
clashed. 'Flic greater their knowledge of the
rival armaments. the topography of the
war-theater and the technique of naval strategy. |
the more realistically are they a 1»1 e. to reproduce,
the momentous events which began with last Sat j
No More /pissing Between
Feminines
E can almost hear the specter,step
of the millennial as it strides down
the near years! Three hundred
women, real live women, have sign
ed a pledge not to kiss each other.
It is true that this epochal thing
lias happened in Mexico, the land of
impulse and tnanana, but it would
be notable had it happened in the
South sea archipelago. The mas
culine section of the universe lias
long reconciled itself to the more or
less pleasing spectacle of the demon
strative feminine kiss. Women 01
a riper culture, we are told, do not
Leaves from an Old
Scrap Book
Bl A GEORGIA COLONEL.
OW many beautiful ola
war poems, that were
written under the lneui-
ratlon of shot and shell
and tattered banners,
have passed out of sleet!
Many of. these poe.ms 1
And In the old scrap-book.
I reproduce here the fol
lowing:
OUR SHIP.
BY. H. I* FLASH.
All aboard for the Port of the Free!
And every man sprang aboard.
Who had any hope. In the days-to-be,
Or any faith In tiie Lord.
We cut her loose from the hulk where
3he lay.
And startccdirr out to sea,
With never a chert of the perilous' way
That leads to (he Port of the Free.
For four long years she 'has struggled
and tossed
On the foam of the fiery sea.
And many a gallant sailor lost
On the way to the Port of the Free.
She has felt the force of many a blow—
She has struck on many a rock—
But plunges on as the echoes do,
After the thunder shock.
Russian Armada Is Annihilated In
Greatest Modern Naval BattlePeace Talk
HE long expected naval
battle In the Far East hits
ot last been fought, with
Togo the overwhelming
victor, Up to the time
of going to press, of the
formidable armada with
which Rojestvensky left
tile Baltic last October,
only two vessels are
known to have escaped;
one, the Almaz, a cruiser,
and the Groany, a torpedo
boat destroyer, Rojest
vensky himself Is a prisoner of the Jnp-
I nitjpse and is being treated In a. Japanese
hospital for fractured skull; NebogatofT,
the second in command. Is also a prls-
Ruasdan ship to bay. Admiral Nebogat.
off’s battered remnant surrendered ofT
ILlancourt rocks while Rojestvensky with
the best remaining battlo ships fought ,
cn for the honor of the Russian navy.
More exact details are lacking, owing
to the intense reticence of the Japanese j
war office. Admiral Togo ha?' sent only
fragmentary reports, and several days |
are expected to elapse before a detailed
account can be secured.
Beyond a doubt, however, the bloody
battle In the Korean strait and Its de
cisive Issue leaves the supremacy of the
sea firmly In Japanese ihandsi for the re
mainder of the present war. His al
ready heavy force, recruited by the cap
tured Russian vessels. Togo will be more
than a match for any fleet Russia can
improvise and send out against him. The
The
and
yrdav and which, so far as we are informed, aitf-:
>-till in the unwinding. While the element of the! exchange kisses in public, because of the breach
dramatic predominates, doubtless there is much ofi of etiquette thereby involved. But the custom* is
the morbid ami repellent crossing these various still sufficiently prevalent to he national, and it
mental horizons
At any rate, the great public'has never ceased to be a source of wonder
1 of the entire world, irrespective of country,
mint
creed or color, is aroused and fascinated as it has
not been for many years. After all, the fighting
instinct remains uppermost. In spite of our twen
tieth century civilization, in spite of the many
peace movements fostered more or less plausibly
bv some of the ablest minds of the latter era, in
spite of the spread of religion and the domination
of tlie commercial spirit—mankind still loves a
and speculation to the matter-of-fact masculine
man at the helm is brave
strong—
Captain and pilot he—
Sworn to guide our vessel along,
Till she reach the Port of tho Free
He gives no heed to crash and jar—
lie fears not wave or wind—
Ills eyes are fixed on a beacon star.
With never a. look behind.
For bolter to sink in the surging sea.
On our trackless, perilous way.
Than die of a moral leprosy.
Moored to the hulk where we lay.
But we shall yet reach the Port of the
Free.
Cries every man abroad.
Who has any hope in the days to be.
Or any faith In the ILord.
VICTORS AND THE SPOILS
1 find the following in a letter from a
war correspondent describing the battle
of Murphreesboro:
“I must remark the perfect indifference
of every man to danger. While the bat
tle raged, the boys were seen to pick
up canteens, blanket?, swords, plslols.
etc.; while those who were barefooted,
supplied themselves with boots and shoes.
1 am wearing the beet boots 1 have yet
seen, which I bought from one of tne
boys a half hour after he had pulled
mind. In the city of Mexico, however, the men are
to be given yet greater cause for surmise, if the
present movement attains important proportions.
No less than three hundred of the most prominent
women of that city have formed a club, pledging
themselves not to exchange kisses in public anti
private, their idea being thus to avoid the dissem
ination of contagious diseases. Membership in the
fight. \n admiration of slaughter and applause ofl society is denoted by a red button, and it is said
bloodshed do not account for this wide sentiment.! that the social functions of President Diaz’s capital' ,, ,, „ -
. j j even if they are confederates.
it is lIk- spectacle <>t a conflict, a test of strength | aV made picturesque by a liberal sprinkling* of the
between opponents approximately evenly matched, w.-fning signals of the non-osculators.
Of if. as in the present instance of Russia and What strikes us as amusingly inconsistent, is
Japan, the fighter which appeared at first the undert that the ladies have taken no steps to protect them-
dog exhilfiic phenomenal and unexpected qualities! selves front germs residing on masculine lips,
of pluck and endurance, we take an even greater 1 . Whether they view typhoid, tuberculosis or cholera
interest in the fight than if from the very begin-, as a cheap price to pay for the caresses of sweel-
ning the combatants had been on an equal footing.! hearts or husbands, we are not told, thus leaving
It is the world-old fighting, gambling instinct in all much to painful speculation.
ot us that rivets our attention on the crimsoned Should this sentiment cross the Rio Grande into
waters of ;he Pacific, and that has drawn our eyes I the United States, a catastrophe we do not immedi-l s!st u P° n - viz: that the men surrendered
1 shall be disqualified for taking arms
against government of the United States
until properly exchanged. I will meet
with our excitement and interest. Tn the current j mgs. club seances and conventions, would be de
instance it is a nation’s life on the one side and a prived largely of their charm, for the ibstitution
great nation's prestige on the other. j of the clammy pump-handle effect w. «i not com-
And the fightng instinct which finds intense en-1 pensate for the warmth of cordiality indicated bv
Busy 'World
ARON ALPHONSg
DE ROTHSCHTI.D
is dead in Paris. H,
.yas the head of the
French branch of
the great banking
establishment of the
Rothschilds, - who e
combined wealth is
figufed at 52,500,-
000,000. and he was
also a director of
the Bank of France.
The story of the rise
Baron Rothschild of the Rothschild- -
as remarkable as any in fiction. Tee
first of the family to become a bat.ler
was Mayer Anselm, who was born n
Frankfort in 1743. it was the pur,. ...
of the lad's father to train him to be - ,i a
a rabbi, but the lad had other viev.s,
and instead of studying the Talmud ,-■;-
cretly conned an arithmetic. He was
permitted to enter tihe banking house of
Oppenbeim at Hanover, but later retuc ; .
ed to Frankfort and opened an estab
lishment of his own. When he lay d> V.z
in 1812, after having amassed a fort ;
he summoned his five sons to his ‘ad-
side and impressed upon them to .9
faithful to the Morale Jaws, to ren -j
united to the end and to undertake no .
ing without having first consulted t -ir
mother. Anselm’s lost words w< ■ ■■•;
"Observe these rules and you will u
be rick among the richest, and the w.. j
will belong to you.” In eoniun tion v. h
this advice, the Rothschilds have adore ,1
a ri;;Ti policy of intermarriage, as 1 *
suit of which the prediction of the f.
llv’s dying founder ous been more n
fulfilled.
Admiral Togo.
Admiral Rojestvensky.
oner, with all the officers and mqi of J sole hope of Russian prestige now rests
the Russian fleet that escaped death In
the Korean strait.
The Japanese sunk off the Tsu islands:
Six first-class battlo ships.
Five cruisers.
Une coast defense ship.
Two service ships.
Three torpedo boat destroyers.
They captured at the same locality:
Two battle ships.
Two coast defense ships.
One special service ship.
One torpedo boat destroyer.
HOW TOGO WON.
Against this stupendous loss the Japa
nese casualties of three torpedo boats
stand out in glaring contrast.
The following Associated Press dis
patch from St. Petersburg gives a co
herent account of the battle, as pieced to
gether by the Russian admiralty from
casual dispatches:
“They figure that Admiral Togo with
them off the dead yankee. This looks I his main squadron must have lain some-
wrong. to allow- the dead to be robbed
of boots or shoes; hut, my good Georgia
friends, don’t shudder at such a bar
barous practice. Our noble boys were
barefooted, in a rocky country, and the
dead had no use for shoes. It would be
a waste to allow good shoes, so much
needed, to be bu jd with the dead—
GRANT TO LEE.
The following is a copy of General
Grant's letter to General Lee on the
surrender at Appomattox:
“April 8. 1865 —General R. E. Lee.
Commanding C. S. A. General: Your
note of last evening, in reply to mine
of same date, asking conditions- on which
1 will accept the surrender of the army
of northern Virginia, is just received. In
reply, x will say, peace being my first
desire, there is but one condition I in
where off the coast of Korea while Ad
mirals Kamimura and Uriu held their
rquadrons further north to head off
the Russian vessels which might get
through to bar the entrance to the
strait of Tsugari in case the Russians
should be reported moving up the east
coast of Japan.
"When Togo's, scouts reported that Ad
miral Rojestvensky was heading for the
eastern channel of the strait of Korea
the Japanese admiral steamed around
the north part of Tsu island and came
with tiie army in Manchuria, and al
though it is said that another great
battle is impending there, the attitude
of Russian sympathizers is by no means
an optimistic one.
PEACE PROBABLE.
Peace talk is as yet indefinite. Rus-
s.a, apparently, hast every reason to de
sire peace. She is hopelessly beaten
on the sea, her land feats have not been
such as to inspire hope 01 a retrieval in
that direction and it is evident that the
financing of further hostilities will dc
attended with difficulties. Moreover, the
domestic situation is grave. With hard
ly an exception, the Russian press, fu
rious over the result of tiie Korean strait
encounter, for which it holds the bureau
cracy responsible, clamors for a national
assemblage ard the conferring of more
legislative power on the people. At any
moment it Is. feared that the revolution
ary elements will take advantage of
tbe strained situation to agitato their
doctrines, and the entire empire seems
demoralized by this epochal crisis.
Still, certain elements of the autocracy
are firmly insisting that peace cannot be
contemplated by Russia without repug
nance. Ambassador Cassini, in Washing
ton. declares that his nation must fight
on. for years if necessary, until the honor
of the country is redeemed. In the
meantime. European powers and the
United States arc tactfully inaugurating
efforts to sense Russian official senti
ment and if the slightest chance exists,
it may be assumed that international
peace makers will not be slow to en
courage a cessation of hostilities. The
upon the Russians steaming in double j Japanese government, apparently, is de
column with the cruisers, to port. | termined to wait on Russia for overtures, j
10 the dramatic battles foug-ht recently in Man- atelv apprehend, it will be indeed interesting- to
churia. The size of the stakes has much to do - watch its development. Depot scenes, street meet-
tertainment in the death grapple of international
giants, is the same dynamic force that drives our
ambitions in commerce, industry, art and litera
ture, to a successful conclusion. The difference is
one of sort, not of degree. The wars, the feuds J ine heart is going to take with an easy grace.
the feminine strangle-hold and subsequent kissing
The opportunities for close inspections of' bonnets,
jewelry, artificial hair and complexions would also
decline alarmingly, a loss which no sensible femin-
and the individual duels in these respective fields
now absorb the fighting virility which was once
spent as it is now being spent in the Far East,
find which, let us say it softly or fear of offending
the supersensitive. is still being- expended in the
jungles by contending wild beasts, in the seas by
battling leviathans or small fry, and in the air bv
wheeling, screaming birds, troni the monster cor
morant to the pugnacious English sparrow.
Fighting, fighting everywhere! Peace? The
Simple Life? Yes. at intervals, with all of us.
But in the main, nine-tenths of the time it is a
struggle everywhere. With some people it is a
you or designate offoers to meet any ;
officers you may name for the purpose |
of arranging definitely the terms upon |
which the surrender of the army of
northern Viriglnia will be received. Very !
respectfully, etc., U- S- GRANT, j
“Lieutenant General. Commanding Unit
ed States Army.”
GENERAL JOHN MORGAN.
A correspondent of The New York
Evening Post writes from Cincinnati,
July 30. as follows:
"For the several days since the arrival
of the Rebel General Morgan, crowds of
people hav* besieged the citv prison in
order to get a view ot the great "ubi
quitous, - but the burning rays of a July-
had a tendency to cool the ardor. A
Some of the more cynical masculine critics have
asserted that kissing between women is pretty apt
to be of a hypocritical nature. They even go so
far as to measure the amount of dislike by the
warmth of the kiss. We do not sav that we agree
with this hypothesis. We only present the view, ! general Older from General Burnside de
in rigid impartiality. We have our private opin- i nled access to ati, and even tin- motti-1
ion. of course, of the whole matter, hut not being
classed in the ranks of the experts, hold it hardly
worth while recording.
Our modern disease-prevention craze has many
hysterical things charged up to its credit. This is
the first instance on record, so far as our individ
Yruggle for existence, hare and unadorned. Withjual knowledge runs, that it has reached the stage
others, it is a struggle for supremacy, for prefer-j of actual organization, as in the present instance.
r Breaking” Monte Carlo, Only Ignius Fatuus
''From Pearson's Weekly.1
Hi3 following is from nn
evening paper:
'‘S. Wall, of London, vrh"
Intends to break the bank
at Monte Carlo with ih.-
aid of his calculating ma
chine. continues to meet
with success.”
bers—.from on* to thirty-six inclusive I is the highest amount a player can win
and 0 or zero. It is plain that the j on any one chance. If a player with
tair odds against a player correctly ; unlimited resources could go on playing
picking one of these thirty-seven num- 1 “double or quits” with the Casino In-
bers are 36 to I. But the bank only definitely he would eventually break tho
lays 35 to I. i bank in the full sense of the term. But
Hence the bank has always, rough';.- i you cannot play “double or quits” with
speaking, a 3 per cent advantage over j M. Blanc for long,
t tiie player. To put it another way. if i Starting with the minimum stake al-
a player backs the same number thirty- 1 lowed—viz, 5 francs—and doubling your
Truly. hope springs | seven times he ought, according to tlie stakes each time, your eleventh stake
eternal In the human lair odds, to come out. exactly square. j supposing you to win or lose conseeu-
brenst!” How many in- ; ''lit at Monte Carlo he cannot do so—he i lively, would be over 5.000 francs and
ventors have gone to must lose a point. y,, u double no longer.
Monte Curio with infal'i- \ This advantage of the bank applies to ; In other words, you would have come
blr- systems it Is hard to I al! 1,10 other chances, besides the mmt- J to >1 point at which you could not on
say but probably they -ire to be num- i bers on whlch the player may stake. ! one turn of the wheel either double your
bered by millions and' not one of them ' PakC ’ t( ? e * amp ’£’, tbe called “even" j winnings or recoup all your losses
. . , chance of red or black. Of the tlilrtv- ! All system arc designed to nullify the
has returned the victor. • - •
tables at wl
,,,n him.
even money.
j.-H one. but many,
prs may stake.
Fa-h table Kir*? play for the d.-iy
n capita! of 100,900 francs ($29 ^39). - i: . !
when that sum is exhausted the bank at
that particular table is broken and play
Is suspended until n fresh bank of IOO.OQO
traces is brought by the attendants—a
metier of a mlre.no nr two.
But to break the hank in the ‘true
Fense would he t-> exile 1st the entire against
1 ipite' of the Casino, and th.-:< wl! eiicnre.
nev< r k :ppt-n. tor three simple reasons If on the next turn of the wheel the
i h‘- ur? ! ' 1 i 1the hank lays i;nfa!>- player on these even chances v.ins hie
O his *i : he ; cr. Thl.- 1 will iliustrai.- . stake is re! a red, and he may pick if
sl-.ith- a s, . up. but he wms notixng.
To win he must stake again, and hue
: always win in the long run is the exlst-
i ence of t):• “m • xiniom.'"
The advantage to the hank does no!
etui here, for when zero turns up the
bank takes all stakes, except those on
zero and the even-money chances. The
hitler are put aside—“en prise" is the
technical term.
The second reason why the hank most
when zero turns up it is least 2 to t
a player on an “even-money”
PERCENTAGE IN ROULETTE.
> timblir.j
there are thirtj-seven num- The maximum 5,000 Lancs, or SI,000, It to exist.
And so with th<
Perhaps the most fatal systems of all
; are those based upon the theory that i "
re 1 has 1 onto up a certain number of
times running black will follow. To !!-
I lustrate the folly of this theory, take
| the following example: If yon toss a
penny In the air 1.000 times and it comes
i heads 999 times it is. of course, only
I even money on its being tails the next
j time.
1 The third reason, if. indeed, anoiher lie
' needed, why the bank must always win
is that the human and fallible pbtye- is
j always playing against an infallible
! machine.
| The slightest mistake in calculation,
! the least inattention and the syr'ern
| breaks down. And to err is human.
; So Monte Carlo flourishes, and always
j will flourish, so long as the law allows
of the prisoner was refused admittance.
The ‘press’ were not even favored; but
your correspondent, by a mere accident,
had a few monAid s' conversation with
the guerrilla chitktaln. He appeared
quite at ease until he found that the
-parole’ dodge was useless, and that
General Burnside refused to recognize it,
when he became somewhat reserved and
thoughtful. He seemed to fear that
he would be placed in uncomfortable
quarters, as it was reported that he and
his officers would be sent to Johnston's
island, which lie was told was a cold,
bleak plac,e. and that the prisoners were
treated roughly.
“We told him such was not the case,
but that he would, no doubt, be closqjy
confined and closely watched, but tliat
he would be treated according to ,his
rank and the usage and custom of war.
After about ten minutes' conversation
lie was remanded back to his quarters,
and as he left lie said to General Man-
son, who was standing by: ‘General, 1 1
wish you would intercede and get a
drink of whisky for mo, as I am terri
bly dry.' ”
LETTERS FROM A YANKEE GIRL.
The following appeared in The At
lanta Confederacy in 1864:
“In tiie skirmish Saturday on the Rap
pahannock with the Ninety-fifth Penn
sylvania. in which the latter got the
worst of it and ran. one of the knapsacks
of the flying yankees was captured, and
ir. it a letter from "Martha,’ his sweet-
I heart, who lives in Philadelphia. We
copy a portion of it. spelling and all:
” ‘John, if I could sea you 1 think 1
cold amuse you a while- Y'ou spoke of
soaing lots of fqn running the Rebels
from the Rapperhanock, but 1 don't
think it is much fun when half that
went off in Llie 95th is killed and nearly
all the rest 'is wounded. You said you
did not get hurt in the Battle—you had
better watch for the Rebels' will shoot,
you, they have kill lots of our Friends
that, you use to know.. I heard that they
had killed onkul Joseph and neatly all of
his regt Is kill and founded and missing.
The regt will be ronined. John, i haint
got nny fresh news to write, times are
dull hea-re and no fun for us girls at all-
I want you all to come home and let tiie
Rebels alone for you cant whip them no
how and we can live without them. You
will stay theare until at of you get Kill
ed, I am afraid.’ ’’
1LLIAM Z1EGLK
widely known t
capitalist and pro
motor of several _
tic exploring
ditions. dc-aj
Norton. Conn. jf e
wae. born in Pen ; 1
van.ia in 1343 ,at
was tak>-n n . t
when a boy, md a*
Muscatine 1,
tiie printer''s ti
For a whil, he n 1
Wm Ziegler a- drug
next engaged in tiie bakers' and >
tioners’ supply business. Then ■ i-
interested in baking powder an i : < :
amassed a fortune. Iris real estate ■ g
in Long Island and Brooklyn nun unt 1
to millions of dollars. Mr. Zi-gler 1
not been actively engaged in b
since 1886.
UGEN RICH'! r R,
who has b - nine r -
tirely blind w:t 1
leader in tin- g -
man reichstag of t 9
Freisinnige V . .
partei. and no-
in orator on the
erai side. For
te was th' poh< ii
Toe of B! 'mar k.
Herr Richter w.u
trorn at Du'-seldoi-f.
July 10. 1838 and
Eugene Richter studied a- ’ -
verst lies of Bonn, Heidelberg and Berlin.
For a time he was in the Prussian civil
service, but in 1864 he entered • 19
Journalistic field at Berlin. Five y- s
later he became a member of the Prus
sian diet, and since that time has been
distinguished in parliamentary proceed
ings. ever combating in favor of freedom
and the extension of the power of th»
state. Herr Ri«hter was especially
strong in financial debates Thougn
brusque in manner, hts nature is kind
and amiable.
RINCE VICTOR
NAT^LEON, who-9
projected marriage
with Princess Clem
entine of Belgium
has been a bar- oned
pecause fihe union
would give offense to
France, is the Bona-
partlst pretender to
the French throae.
He Is a son of
Prince Napoleon a: l
of Princess Clotilu
Victor Napoleon and was born
1862 When, after the death of tho
prince Imperial In Zululand in 1873.
Prince Napoleon took the position >f
lit fad of the Bonapartists. the claim was
disputed by Paul de Cass-agnac and other
imperialists, who put forward Prince Vic
tor as his father's rival, which position
Vlctoi- definitely assumed even before
ills lather's death In 1891. By the eN
pulsion bill of 1886 Viotor was exiled
from France and took up his residence at
Brussels. His adherents call him Na
poleon IV.
Star Shows Scene of Action Where Togo and Rojestvensky Met in the Sea-
Fight That Shattered Russia’s Last Hope of Supremacy Over Japan.
“Togo enjoyed the advantage of tac
tical position when he opened fire, having
the lightest of the Russian ships between
him and Rojzstvensky’s heavier vessels,
thus smothering the fire ot the latter.
Besides Togo was able to use all his
broadsides, whereas the sternmost ships
of the Russian columns coming on in
'line ahead formation could probably only
with difficulty use any guns at all.
"Nevertheless, although suffering the
complete loss of four ships in the des
perate encounter which followed, and
being subjected to a series of torpedo at
tack?" Saturday night. Rojestvensky was
able to steam 200 miles during the night.
“When Sunday morning came the Rus
sian fleet was divided into two divisions.
The fastest and stronger division under
Rojestvensky was met by Kamimura and
Uriu while the slower division under Ne-
bogatoff renewed the tight with Togo.
“With some of tiie scattered Russian
units it was a case of save himself who
can. In the running fight yesterday the
Japanese enjoyed the advantage of mu-
being well enough satisfied with its po
sition.
GREATEST MODERN BATTLE.
The concensus of opinion, however, is
that within a few davs. when St. Pe
tersburg more keenly realizes the over
whelming nature of tiie recent reverses,
the government will be found in a re
ceptive frame of mind.
All authorities agree that- the battle -)t
Saturday and Sunday was- the greatest
in modern naval history, or since the
epochal battlo of Trafalgar. It is be
lieved that the fearfully successful use
of torpedo boats and probably submarines-
by the Japanese, will give the popularity
of such craft an lmiftense impetus, as
against the present preference for tho
clumsy and expensive battle ship.
ANOTHER ONE.
"Do you know what you are trying to
say.- queried the editor, as he glan-od
over the copy, “when you speak of n
tom , *°- nK lons rost at ,hf - nn
timely age of 80?
perior speed, enabling them to concen-1 ought*’to*'h^v. re , porter -
trate their fire and bring every crippled twenty yelrs a^’’ b “ « Wor ‘> f ° ra ’^
SHE BAKED THEIR MONEY
I (From The Philadelphia Record.)
i Pine Grove. Pa.—The roasting of .51,000
in currency and check<s in an oven, with
the possibility that a large portion of its
! ashes will be decipherable and redeem
able at the treasury department, was an
interesting incident of circus week here.
The person most naturally interested in
I it was Chief Burgess John Doll, whose
good wife did the roasting and had the
treasury notes and checks "done to a
turn” before her discovery of the mate
rial she had been cooking.
As Burgess Doll was bent on going
to the circus, and nobody could tell what
sort of prowlers might be about at such
a time, he concluded quietly to put all
of ills portable wealth out of the way
of temptation. An innocent looking cigar
box was just the thing, and Into this
he thrust his 51,000, and deposited the
box in the oven of hie cold stove, out
of commission, surely, till the Sunday
baking should be done. Then away to
the circus he went.
But good Mrs. Doll thought she would
get her Sunday baking out of the way
bofore Doll returned and give him a
good surprise. So she heated up the
kitchen stove, and when she thought it
was about right, opened the oven door,
only to find inside the smoking ashes of
a cigar box and something that looked
suspiciously like money. It crumbled
as she touched it, out she got it out of
the oven and smothered the remaining
flames as best she could.
AYhen the burgess got home they com
pared notes, and comments, and wound
up b> agreeing that the one and only
thing left to do was to ask Uncle Sam
to put on his best specs and see if he
could not decipher enough of ashen cur
rency to redeem it, in whole or in part*
ALMOST HUMAN.
(From Puck.)
Lady—Can that parrot talk?
A sprightly young fellow in Nashua,
Determined to throw all hts cashua.
Cried loudly. "Ha, ha!
Bring me pate de foie gras.”
HIGHER CRITICISM.
"Do you believe in the higher cr'ti-
cism . asked the good deacon-
“Sure thing,” answered the famous
actor. V\ hat the gallery gods say goet,*