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T rp. ITT- TTP * -a kj u Uni u Attempt to Escape Was a Costly and Complete Failure. Seizure of Russian Boat Made the Basis of a Protest and Se rious Coir, pli cation ; pected. A special from Tokio under dme of Friday, August 12th, say Admi ral Togo has reported as follows: "On j August 10 our combined fleet attacked the enemy’s fleet near Gugan Rock. The Pnctian V e-,wi« wore emero-inn- 1 6 ** from Port Arthur trying to go south. " We pursued tne enemy to tne east ward. Severe fighting lasted from 1 o’cock Wednesday afternoon until sun dnwn Toward th P pio^c 1 the encm 3 • J • lire weakened remarkably. His for ... became contused , and then Ir.s ma;ion ships scattered. The Russian cruisers Askold and Novik and several torpedo fin ,. t J„ duho 0 tmvoro ers floa fled to tr , the e»„iv>„.o^ri southward. i Others of the enemy’s ‘ ships ‘ retreated separately ,..... toward Port Arthur. We pursued them, and it appears that we inflicted considerable damage. We fn rounn ,. nH h+v, lire buoys and other articles be- „ , longing to the Russian battleship Czar evitch floating at sea. The Czarevitch was sunk. We have received no r* ports from the torpedo boats and the torpedo boat destroyers engaged in the attack on the ships of the enemy, The Russian vessels, with the excep tion of the Askold, the Novik, the Czarevitch and cruiser Pailada, ap pear to have returned to Port Arthur. Our damage was slight. Our fighting power has not been impaired. The casualties in the Japanese navy num bered one hundred and seventy.” WASHINGTON IS INFORMED. The following Associated Press ca blegram was received at the state de partment Friday from Minister Gris wold. dated Tokio. August 12: ‘“According to latest reports receiv ed at the headquarters the Japanese fleet attacked the Russian flee - . j emerging from Port Arthur to t he j south of Round Island, off Tallen bay. The Russian fleet finally, defeated, fled during the night. Cruisers Askold Novik and one other destroyer entered Kiao-Chou bay the night of the lHn, one destroyer fled to Che Foo; firo battleships, one cruiser, probably Bi ana. hospital ship, and several de e-troyers returned to Port Arthur, he tween dawn and midday of the 11th Apparently no damage to Japanese fleet.” : A cablegram also has been received from Mr. Fowler. American consul at Che Foo. stating that Japanese torp-' do boats entered the harbor and at tacked the Russian torpedo boat wbirh bad arrived there several days asri and dismantled, captured her and took I her out. COMPLICATIONS EXPECTED. The Associated Press report of the capture by the Japanese torpedo boat ( dostrovers of the Russian destroyer Rieshitelsi in the harbor of Che Foo. as conveyed to Washington by the co" sul general’s cablegram of Friday was received with the deepest interest and also concern, for it was realized that there were in this incident the germ ef serious international trouble. WARSHIPS MUST l?F DISMANTLED. Russian Vessels Seek Refuge in Neutral Harbors to Escape Fneniv. Consul General Goodnow has cable 1 the state department Friday from Shanghai that a Russian torpedo boat destroyer had just arrived there, and j that if these vessels intend to remain more than twenty-four hours at Shang hai. they must dismantle and rema.n tied up until the end of the war. Prob ably the treaty of peace which will finally conclude the war between Rus sia and Japan, will contain a paragraph making disposition of the Russian ves sels which have thus taken refuge in Chinese waters. Mr. Fowler spoke of the affair as a “cutting out” expedition, thereby dif fering in an important point from the press dispatches which at first reading appeared to indicate the seizure of the Russian boat was in at least some degree caused by the action of the captain of the cr 2 ft in attacking the Japanese Hoarding lieutenant. It may be that the point will turn the decis ion as to whether or not there has been a violation of Chinese neutrality by the Japanese. If the expedition was a genuine cut ting out one, then there is no question ;n iho minds of the officiate in Wash . the Japanese , .. . Uiat pave commit mgton led an offense against international law by violating Chinese neutrality , audition ..... have , . iroken , the agree- „ ana ip . mcnt they entered into at the begin nine of the war at the instance of the Untied States government to limit the field of warlike demonstration to .Man ' n o n a Korea ’ and their water-'. Should , this , . to be the , .. prove case, uk, results probably will be grave and vexatious. I nuer the tenets ot iiuernation^ law llie captured vessel must be re turned for the offense against Chinese neutrality. . ... ,, But it Russian .__. U\e. ha. „ a been lost as reported in the press dis patches, a greater complication will lOliOW, tor Russia may . turn . not . .. a m China responsible for the punishment ^ w}jat cauged the death of the sall . when • under ,, the shelter , u of , the m. Chi ors nese port authorities. Altogether the situation is full cf danger, , and j x, the apprehension . . ct .. mam the Washington * officials is that it may , be the . incident . that; will break , down , t1 .„ HgrGemcnt 9(rr „ m . nt ot of t tAie >,„ powrit nnwers <aUu .- nd plunge China into the war as a full fledged belligerent and ally of Japan, The consequences of such an act on China's part upon existing alliance.* between Japan and Great Britain and between Russia and France can only be conjectured and the prospect is so alarming that it is not doubted the state department will do its utmost along with the rest of the powers to effect such a settlement of this ind dent as shall preserve the agreement as to China in full force. RUSSIA FILES PROTEST. The Associated Pres- at St. Peters burg is able to announce that Russia lias already formally protested to Ja pan. through France, against the ac tion of the Japanese torpedo boat de stroyers in attacking the Russian Wk pedo boat destroyer at Che-Foo and lowing her away from that port an»l that the protest has been communicat ed to the powers. It is further stated that both France and Germany a-e supporting at Pekin this protest of the Russian government. The Che-Foo incident is discussed freely in Pekin, and it is the general opinion in diplomatic circles that Jap anese has committed, to say the least, a grave indiscretion. The report cur rent that the Chinese warships at Che foo did nothing to prevent the capture of the Ryeshitelni is declared to pla'e China in an unenviable position. - GERMANY ACTS PROMPTLY, Advices ... from £ ^ Berlin, .. Germany, „ stata . , that the foreign office confirms the ar rival Thursday night “ at Tsing-Chou at the entrance of , Kiao-Chou . bay, tho German concession on the Shan-Tutig peninsular, of the Russian battle ship Czarevitch, the protected cruiser No vik and an unnamed torpedo boat. The Czarevitch is in an unseaworthy con dition, having been damaged in Wod nesday's fight. The foreign office has sent instructions to the German au thorities at Tsing-Chou to the eff°at that the Novik and torpedo boat must leave the harbor within twenty-four hours prescribed by international law MINERS APPEAL TO JUJGE GRAY. Delaware Jurist is Wanted to Settle Con tention in Coal Region. At a meeting of the mining*board of conciliation at Wilkesbarre, Pa. Friday, the representatives^ the min ers offered the following resolution: "It, is agreed by the board of coii dilation, ... that the entire question of . check weighmen and check docking bosses be submitted to Judge Gray, goving him full power to interpret award No. 5. and direct both miners and operators what, they are required to do to carry out all provisions of said award, as intended by the anthra cite me coal coat strike striae commission” commi sion. A SERMON FOR SUNDAY A STRONG DISCOURSE ENTITLED, “AN ADVANCE ORDERED. >» The Ret. Or. John E. A<lams Tells of the taw of Progress as Exemplified in the Waxmg Strong ot the Infant , - We i Should Seize Our Inheritance. Brooklyn, X. Y.—Having been ap pointed Presiding Elder of the New York I District of the New York East Conference, j the Rev. Dr. .lohn E. Adams, pastor of Grace M. E. Church, preached his closing ; sermons Sunday. During his pastorate of ! a little more than two years he has had 1 marked success. The debt of the church, $20,000. wis canceled in January. 1903, the mortgage burned and the church i£ now free from incumbrance. Sunday morning j Dr. Adams preached on “An Advance Or dered.” The text was from Exodus xiv: | that 15: “Speak unto the children of Israel, | they go forward.” Dr. Adams said: When this advance was ordered, the Is raelites were encamped on the coast of the Red Sea. Before them was the sea spread out "for miles and leagues, and they had neither bridge nor boat, nor pontoon by which to cross it. Behind them was the army of Pharaoh, with horses and | commanders, chariots, with intent trained warriors their and skilled destruction. On either on side, capture or it would seem, were formidable obstructions—mountains, he or fortresses, or something that could not i of passed—for the Israelites saw no way escape and cried out for fear. In this I perilous the and apparently hopeless situation f } people reproached Moses for the dread j j duced; u extremity whereupon to which they had been re that holy man appealed | tn God for help, and then came, probably | in tones of thunder that sounded in the j 0 £ a ]] f£ )C p CO p’ e f u ji an ,j c .t ear above the roar of the sea, this strange order: herd ore c-riest thou unto Me? Speak unto t lie children of Israel that tlicv go | forward.” Leaving the literal narrative, * ; now ex i 9 e P* as we may have occasion to recur to I it incidentally, let us attend to the moral : before meanings and uses of the text. The case us is exceptional in nothing but the physical facts; the moral truths and un oeriying principles of this case are always and everywhere present among the people of God. Indeed, the principles here in vo * ve< I are so general and the analogies of universal history are so wide and complete I that I think we s.re justified in regarding j this text as the law of the universe an- 1 plied .to the church. I he physical occasion j finds ®t Inis text, m all of its essential features, I of this its duplicate in the moral occasion | service. We are the children of i W ourselves l ean prove it by St. j J au1 -, H ye be t hmt s. then are ve Abraham's . seed.and heirs according to the promise.’’ The Red .Sea is before us. j Arabia ^ <> V. hai and kfJS floats fa Giat the washes commerce the sands ot the of I East, but the Red Sea of moral hindrance —a sea that is deeper than the Atlantic I Ocean ~Yr a and dIIU wider ' VU1C - than uian the u,e 1 acifie. i’luu ticjuated aphs army Egyptian is pqrsumg division, us. Not the an- ! I but the infernal brigade itself, now extinct, j fieW still in the i and strictly up to date in every par j ermost tred pit insph^witlf incon^eivMhe^ia j and, in the words of Milt on, "armed j with hell names and fury,” and following | us in overwhelming numbers and with un appeasable fierceness. Such is out- situa j tion this very hour, and as we stand to-day ! amid these Hireatening environments, the j heaven, "Go us from this forward,” and in obedience j to fiappines*. order lies our duly, our safety and ou r , Let aooroach subject by us o step fi t e p. God is the author of rlie universe. ! The universe existed in the Divine Mind as an ideal before it existed in itself as a substance, I he ideal was complete and perfect as well a> beautiful and good; but the first states oi tlie actual averse did . not realize that pci feet ideal of -the Di vine Mind. What then? Did God fail? Did His active energv 'rove unequal to i His beneficent intentions? By no means. God gave the universe this imperfect form at first, not because lie could not do other wise and had to abandon His ideal but be cause He saw it better to realize His ideal gradually through the law of progress than to realize it suddenly by an act of crea tive power. Deliberately and of His own volition God made the universe a crude mass of unorganized matter and force; and then, intr.sting His sublime work to the law of progress operated by respon sible intelligences, He directed that in due time all should be reduced to order, har mony and beauty. This is he story of the universe in its entirety and in its parts. This is the story of the worlds and of their productions. This is the story of minerals, and vegetables and animals; of general species individuals; This of angels, women and men. is the story of matter in all its combinations, of life in all its forms, and of mind in all its phenomena. This, in brief, so far as we have yet learned, is the story tion. of all meat ion, and of all propaga Let me illustrate what I mean by the oak. God's ideal for tlie oak is a majestic l J height, ree ' with feet in mighty diameter and ten ieet in * j bold of the rocks and roots mighty taking branches deep wrestle with the < i l° lu storms l s ’~ a very and . K play ' ant with t,iat '‘ the an ! lightnings. But in its beginning, as it sprouts from the acorn, the oak is a tiny skoot "’inch the foot of ,a little child could effectually crush. God makes it thus and say.s to it, “Go forward;” and then the lit tle plant, obedient to the Divine com mand, through cloud and sunshine and changing season, soon goes on and out and up, until at last, by means of the law of •progress in the form of growth, it lias iuInlied the word of (4od, and stands be loie t.ie eyes of men in all the imposing grandeur ot its towering and solid matur ity. lake tlie eagle as another illustration, God’s ideal for the eagle is an imperial bird of great size i,n< l strength, with , amazing keenness . of vision and with pin ions tor majestic flight, the mountain crag its castle, and its pleasure ground the sky. th f Dlvme lor this noble u- bird. j ™ But the young eaglet from the shell feeble little emerges a creature, and it you could see it during the first week or two of its existence, and could stroke with >°>!> hand its soft yellowish down and look into its pale bluish eyes, its feeble ness would probably excite your pity. But as the little thing feeds and exercises it § row A aml strengthens, until at last, mi der the operation of this law of progress ’*•: oan ' ,m 'froiii the nest, launch into the beat^down'1'he'.tonn douda°unSr 8U i& seven foot spread of wings, and sail from continent to continent, through the oceans below*' - " ine ’ ovt>l 1 ' ,e octar,s l,iat ro ^ But in this discussion we must rise out Ult ° lteIlectua mrad, and then still ascend will, 1 ' * to the spiritual. We tration therefore, n consider man as puiTuing. arWUus of the truth we are God's idea] for man is a most exalted and sublime being, .with mental and moral en dowments of tremendous scope, iso im measurably all else superior in parts and powers to we know, that it seems the whole creation must culminate in him. God de him signed man in His own iniage, intended for communion and companionship with Himself, determined to make him His vice-regent posed here on the earth, and pro at last to share the government of the universe w ith Him forever. The thought of such dignity is ail astonishing and overwhelming conception, but nothing ess ^ an i* 11 ? ls s ideal for man, if I read J the , Scriptures aright, But the distance between inception and «omplet;on is greater here than elsewhere, P ot onI Y because man is destined to rise higher . than other but creatures, also be fa use he begins lower. It is a well-known iaot That the young of the human species inferior in strength and activity to^ the young of many ot the lower animals. True. " e " alk round the cradle of the sleeping mtant . with soft and and reverent step, t ' ns i® fitting. Heaven itself lo*ks down . human infancy with ^ pn reverence. I doubt ^ f°9 strong to say that God stations a Quaternion of guardian angels at the four corners of every little crib in the land, but t he reverence with which we regard **? e child arises from a prophetic instinct oi what the child wnl be, rather than from * n Z perception of what it now is. human baby is the absolute extreme , }ee . b.eness, helplessness and ignorance, , cannot stand, nor walk “ nor even creep. If cannot think. It does not know. It bus no true perception, nor any mental ac tion whatever, apart fro,.', what we call instinct. It is utterly without the moral experiences—without love, without, hate, without hope, without faith. Though be longing to the Kingdom of God, it knows as httfe of God as Herbert Soeneer used t° insist he and the rest of mankind knew. It I s nothing but a bundle of unconscious organized life, with inherent capabilities not yet manifest. It hasn’t ability enough to recognize itsell, nor will it ever have memory of enough its to remember itself at this stage first miracle being. Providence Were it not for that of in human life -—the mother’s love—it would perish from the earth on the day of its birth. But wait a little and see. Wait until the mother's fostering care, and the lath era tion disciplinary training, and the instruc of the schools and the churches, and all the various appliances of Christian civ ilization have wrought their vast part in connection with the universal law of de velopment and progress—and then observe the child, non become the man. How wonderful and indescribable the result! I hat little child now siands erect and sur veys the high pines* ot the earth. He climbs the heights, and. walking with God on the horns of the mountains, he sur veys the heavens. He counts the stars and calls them oy their names, lie knows he is superior to -uin and systems. His heart thrills with pulsations that are mightier fluences. than ocean currents or solar in* He sees. He knows. He un derstands. He reasons. He fecks within himself the mighty masterv. He calls out to God, and God answers him. he seep tre is already in hisjumd, and ti.e crown is iti sight that the Son of Man Himself wi]l_ he is soon king, place and on alive Ins forevermore, brow. Henceforth with a life that will rule the world and conquer death. Much is the law of progress which is here applied to the church, Roth collec tively and individually. We arc here sol emnly commanded to rise up and seize our inheritance. Never before m all the ages was there suc-h a concurrent blast of trum pets from all quarters of the globe calling the church to go forward. Let the v;o. trains form and the march begin. “I Gave Them Myself. »» Said a mother to me one day: When my children were young I thought the very best thing l could do for them was to give them rnyself. So I spared no pains to talk to them, to read to them, to teach them, to pray with them, to be a loving companion and friend to my ehil dren. “I had to neglect my house often. I had no tune to indulge myself in many things, which J should have liked to do. 1 was so busy adorning their minds and cultivating that I their heart’s best affection could not adorn their bodies in line clothes, though I kept them neat and com fortable at all times. "1 have my reward now. My sons are ministers of the Gospel; my grown-up daughter is a Christian woman. 1 have plenty of time now to sit down and rest, plenty oi time to keep my house in order, plenty of time to indulge myself, besides going about my Master’s business wher ever He has need of rne. 1 have a lbou sand memories of their childhood to com fort me. Now that they have gone out into the world, 1 have the sweet con sciousness of having done all I could to make them ready for whatever work God calls them to do Life and Faith. Princlplei of Morality. Possibly by the there is too little attention glr leaders of religious thought to the relations of sin to society and to i m pressing the duty of abstract righteous nes* upon all classes of men. If is not sin in its relation to God that we mean, but sin as it affects man's value to him self and to society—die sociological aspect oi a violation oi God s law. r l here are some men who can be reached only in this. ",ay. Sin against God has no terrors for them. The thought of future accounta bility does not appeal to them; but its temporal consequences, its effects on civ il and social life and upon the sinner him self, may, if rightly presented, have a deterrent influence. The world to-dav is blinded by vicious ideas of right and wrong. noxious Sin, in some quarters, is less ob than a breach of social etiquel te. Iniquity i.s justified in many quarters if it ian be made to pay. But society is safe V'i.v inate it, correct and principles of morality dom through correct ideas will come only leaders of religious thorn-ht.— United Presbyterian. Wrong Aotiiisr From Wrong Think;, Jff . In Ciiina a man is required to mourn •aree years for the death of his father, Wy days for the death of his mother, and deed, not at all Chinaman for the death of his wife.’ In if a would feel disgraced lie showed any sorrow on account of t m death i of ^ his wife. This tells its of life in heathen own -.wry a country with a < vilization thousands of years old.—Re l ined Church Record. Simplicity. Simplicity Great i.s the crowning jewel of alt virtues. messages, great truths, great discoveries and great events are makes "ver simple in their elements. Simplicity the great nobler and lifts the ob scure bright to charm places of eminence. It is t he of innocent childhood and the radiant gem of the old and learned.— Maxwell s Talisman. TURK FORCED f o If Agrees to all Demand* o{ States and Impendi ,n 8 Trod Blows Over. A special from Cons tanti: The issues betw fen T, United States were ar to the satisfaction ‘"acg of i ments. Minister Leishman Pasha, Turkish minister saw fairs, and oi fore; renewed the urgent semations of the Americ a for immediate » govei an settlement mands regarding the of t can citizens right, of , in Turkey. After the interview with ister Tewfik proceeded': r ne Pasha ately to the palace. In the cours e of the discus t Turkish , • , delegates ^ l ssio pugn the character attempt t< of some schools and contested Affif claim to be granted 1 certain given to French institutions prfc Leishman, however, firmly ref consider any us suggestion of dis, nation and insisted on a full ance of the American list f three hundred 0 schools, hosni Pitais, itable institutions and missii dwellings filed with the Porte eig months ago. The American points that the porte had ample ti ime to the list, but that it had done nor and Mr. Leishman positiv to listen to any suggestion regal treatment differing from that acci to the schools, etc., under the Pi tion of other powers. ACCOUNT GIVEN BY J 4 PAM& Official Statement Regarding Seiru Russian Torpedo Boat atChefw , The Japanese navy departing Tokio has issued the follow! mg ment covering the Che-Foo incidi “According to reports receive! date the Asashiwo and Kasumij longing to the first destroyer fkj Captain Fiijimoto commanding, dispatched in search of the end shi-ps scattered during the engagel on the night of August 10. Theyn a vessel resembling one of theenJ bul destroyers and gave chase, her in the darkness. dil | Continuing the search, they ered that she had entered the I of Clie-F'oo. The Japanese ships I ed outside the port, but the I sians failed to leave. Captain I moto. anticipating its escape, dl the night, if possible, to attack I j chant vessels, entered Che-Foo the two destroyers and found theI sian destroyer Ryeshitelni remaij undisarved. “lieutenant Terashima withal was j sent to the Russian vessel sage to the effect that the Japaj commander expected him to leava fore dawn or surrender. The Rua commander refused to comply either demand, and while the bead eoj ence was going on he was structing his men to blow up the a Ar the same time he caught hoi Lieut. Treshima and threw him d board. “Our interpreter was next sailors t!uj overboard by some Russian others, and the sailors showed s of resistance, fighting desperately! their fists. While this was prop ing the forward magazine exploi killing some of our men. We captured the destroyer and retired “Our loss by the explosion was man killed and four men mora wounded. Lieut. Terashimo, our n preter and nine others of the boan party were wounded. • • NAVAL BOARD STIRRED BY SCHLEY Hero of Santiago Gives a Personal of Great Naval Battle Naval circles have been da stirred by an article on the naval tie battle off Santiago during Spanish-American war, which ap? 1 in The Saturday Evening Po- ! ; Philadelphia, and which was wri by Rear Admiral Schley, retired In this article the rear admiral dfs gj his “persona! account of the tion of the Spanish fleet, and i makes several statements regam the old questions which the n3 battle brought about and which e' an exhaustive court of- inquiry not fully settle. PARKER ENJOYS AN OUT** Democratic Nominee Entertained b' nesook Club in Catskills Mountain^ Judge Alton B. Parker, the M cratlc nominee for president, ‘ ! guest at the Winnisook club. above sea level, at the font of mountain in Ulster county, Neff which is the highest P oinl in Catskills. , The Winnisook club " as about 20 for the P 111 years ago rial of hunting, fishing and sot 6 ation. and Judge Parker was its president. *