Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1904 — Page 3

PROGRESS OF THE WAR

After the battle of Telissu It became apparent to the Russians In Port Arthur that,they qpuld not hope for relief. When the place should fall the fchlps then in the harbor must either be surrendered or destroyed. Accordingly the Muscovite admiral determined to make a run for It and either idle fighting or escape. Even If he died fighting he probably would Injure the Japanese ships. Togo’s patrol, which doesn’t seem to have let many of the Russian movements escape it, reported that on Tuesday last a large part of the Russian fleet had moved into the other entrance of Port Arthur. Togo at once guessed kliat a sortie would be attempted after nightfall. Then the Japanese commander moved more quickly than the (Russian. Darkness fell, but before Uie Russian squadron was under way the Japanese torpedo boats had rushed in, sunk the Peresviet, and disabled the Sevastopol. The Peresviet was one of the finest Russian modern warships, having a displacement of 12*674 tons, a speed of 18 knots; and an armament of four 10 Inch, eleven 0 inch, and sixteen B Inch guns. The Sevastopol has a tonnage of 10,960 tons, a speed of 17.3 (knots, and a battery of four 12 Inch and twelve 5.9 inch rifles. Up to date Togo has lost one Battleship, the Hatsuse, and one cruiser, the Yoshino. To offset these losses he has Inflicted the following injuries upon ithe Russians: Two days after the war Jbegan his torpedo boat 9 severely injured the battleships Czarevitch and Retvisan and the cruiser Pallada. The following day the Russian fleet went but to battle, but was compelled to return with water line holes in the battleship Poltava and the cruisers Diana, lAskold and Novlk. The same day the gunboat Korietz land the cruiser Variag were destroyed at Chemulpo by Admiral Uriu, one of {Togo's chief lieutenants. On April 12 Togo sowed the waters

Outside Port Arthur with mines and on the 13th he left an unprotected cruiser as a bait to draw the Russians out. The Russians fell Into the trap •end came out, but when the full Japanese squadron compelled them to retreat they struck the hidden mines. The battleship Petropavlovsk was sunk with nearly all on board and the Pobleda severely injured. Early In May Togo succeeded In hla third Hobson attempt Nine merchant ships laden with stone were suuk In the entrance to the harbor, preventing the ships from within from coming out 'As soon as these obstacles were placed, the second and third Japanese armies rushed upon their transports and were landed, one at Pltsewo above Port Arthur, and the other at Takushan. Later the Russians managed to blow out the obstacles, but their fleet had been neutralized at the critical moment when the transports were on the seas. Future history recording these exploits will enroll the Japanese name of Togo as high as the highest on her short list of great naval captalnß. In the beginning of the war observers made the mistake of believing that Togo was a Japanese admiral. He Is toot He la a military genius of the sort which but seldom in the annuls of any one country blazes across the pages of history. Japan has only one .Togo, If she had two the Vladivostok squadron would be about three-fourths destroyed by this time The map shows what the Russians fcnow of the Japanese position on land. The Japanese outposts are within a few miles of Kalcliou. Behind them somewhere or other lies on army iwhlch apparently consists of the forces rwhich den. Nodzu landed st Takushan, united with a part of the force jwhlch Gen. Oku landed above Port [Arthur. Most of Oku’s army roust sdll Ibo resting In the' environs of Port [Arthur. Otherwise the Russians could •merge from that plans and rstaks [Nansban bill.

The fact that the reports of the battle of Telissu were signed by Oku does not indicate that that general had withdrawn his force from its objective —t’ort Arthur. It more likely means that the Japanese staff wants to make the Russians think that this has been dona Probably Gen. Nodzu was in command at the battle of Telissu. Nodzu ranks first among the four Japanese generals, Oku being second, and Kurokl third. Above these three generals are the two field marshals, Yamagata first and Oynma second. It is now announced that Oyama has been sent to take command in person in the field. While Nodzu’s forces are In the neighborhood of Kaichou, Kurokl’* outposts are advancing over three roads to Kaichou, Tatchekiao, and Baieheng respectively. These outposts form a screen. The Russians don’t know and the world doesn’t know whether behind this screen Kuroki’s army is advancing In three equal parts over these three roads or whether his main strength is being directed In along but one of them. The seeming tendency of the last week has been for Kurokl to edge further southward, getting nearer the Takushan position vacated by Nodzu. For some time the Japanese have been endeavoring to convey the impression that Kurokl Intends to swing around to the north. Therefore it is probable that be never at any time entertained such an Intention.

JOIN FOR BIG FIGHT.

Kurokl and Oka Ready to Spring; at Kuropatkin’s Throat. Lieut. Gen. Sakhnroff’s dispatch confirms the belief that the great decisive battle of the campaign between Gen. Kuropatkin’s main army and the armies of Gens. Knroki and Oku is imminent. The three armies probably aggregate 300,000 meu and their outposts are in touch all along the line. The Japanese evidently

tried to draw Kuropatkin as far south as possible, holding out as au incentive a check to the advance of Oku’s main army. Meantime Oku swung sharply to the. eastward to join Kuroki toward the Ghapnn pass, Kuroki at the same- time moving a strong force by the right flank toward Halcheng. The main Japanese advance continues along the main Feng-Wang-Cheug-Llao-Ynng road, avoiding the Mao-Tien pass by a detour to the northward. The advance in all points is being attended by constant skirmishing. Nothing is known of the exact point at which Kuropatkin’s main force is concentrated, though it is believed that a large part of the LiaoYang force has been moved to a point between Kin-Ohau and Ta-Tche-Kiao. According to a dispatch from Ta-Tche-Kiao a large force had pushed southward from that place against Oku. While Kuropatkin is thus extending himself, the Japanese, with great mobility, seem to be trying to concentrate for die purpose of striking the Russians in the flank and rear.

War News in Brief.

It Is reported that Edward F. Knight, the correspondent of the London Morning Post with the Japanese army, was killed st Wafangtien. H. J. Middleton, the Aeeociated Press correspondent with the Russian headquarters near Llaoyang, In Manchuria, died Sunday from enteric dysentery. Later details of the naval battle off Tort Arthur show that the Japanese torpedo boats defied the broadsides of the Russian fleet, sailing boldly up to the battleships and launching their torpedoes with deadly effect Defeat of the Russian army near Tatcheklao la reported In St. Petersburg, but confirmation cannot be obtuined. Gen. Oku's'forces ere said to be withdrawing from the position they have held, but military experts think this may conceal a movement in another direction. The St Petersburg Novoe Vremya, calling attention to the statement that Don Jaime de Bourbon was an eye witness to< the killing of Russiau wounded at Vafangow, declares that something must be done quickly to prevent the war degenerating into the seneelees brutality which the Japanese practices indicate.

WASHINGTON GOSSIP

Borne idea of the many and diverse Interests which the Supreme Court must consider may be formed from the business done on the last “opinion flay” in May, before its adjournment until October, when it announced its flecißion in an, exceptionally large number of important disputes. Three cases were decided, involving questions relating-Jp the administration of criminal lawJn the Philippines. The constitutionality of the “oleo” law was next upheld. A dealer argued that oleomargarine which received its color from butter 'used as an Ingredient should not be subject to the tax, and also that the rates under the present law were prohibitive and confiscatory. The court replied that the amount of the tax was a purely political function with which it could not deal. A concern against which a “fraud order” had been Issued by the Postoffice Department had sought redress by bringing suit against the postmaster at Chicago in a case which finally reached the Supreme Court The department it was decided, was justified in its action. A man in a suburb of Kansas City had been released by the United States District Court from payment for certain street improvements which were declared unnecessary. The Supreme Court overruled this, deciding that the city authorities must be the sole judges of the necessity. Then there were cases involving homesteaders’ titles in lowa, licenses in Alaska, street railroad fares In Cleveland, State claims against a steam railroad in Indiana, and an electric-lighting franchise in Kentucky.

In its century of bistory tbe White House has seldom been the scene of a more Interesting reception than that which was given in honor of the visiting Filipinos, who have been making a tour of the United States. Tbe President and Mrs. Roosevelt entertained them at luncheon, after which the prominent people of the national government were Invited in to meet them. With few exceptions, none of these visitors, and they are tße leading men of the archipelago, had ever been in the United States before. Some of them had never before left the archipelago, for the Philippine Islanders are not great travelers. Most of the places to which they would naturally go are a long way off, and so those who are not prepared for a formidable journey stay at home. Americans going to the Philippine Islands have been profoundly interested in the strange contrasts which the Asiatic tropics present These visiting Filipinos were equally Interested in conditions here. They found tfie American summer about like their climate all the year round. Our warm and substantial buildings told to their observing eyes of the frosts of winter and of the absence of earthquakes. The railroad system of the United States amazed them. The multitude of our cities was almost confusing.

It has been announced by the Agriculture Department that Its search for an enemy to destroy the cotton-boll weevil has been rewarded by the discovery in Guatemala of an ant which preys upon the insect. In Alta Vera Paz cotton appeared to thrive in a country infested with the weevils. Investigation showed that this was due to the ant, which gets its food from the nectaries of the cotton. This ant is equipped with powerful mandibles, and when It finds a weevil beetle on a plant at once seizes and kills it It is an inveterate hunter after the pests, and several ants usually take their stand for this purpose on each stalk, so that a single colony protects a large field. It does not sting persons, as do many Guatemalan ants, and so far as known is harmless. An attempt will be made by the department to establish permanent colonies in Texas, where tbe weevil pest is worst, and for this purpose many thousands of the ants have been brought to this country.

For the first eleven months of the current fiscal year, ending May 31, there was an excess of government expenditures over receipts of $52,265,869. This deficit is accounted for by tbe payments made on account of the Panama Canal and the loan to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company, amounting in all to $54,000,000. After allowance is made for these items, however, there Is still evidence of a marked change in tbe condition of the Treasury, for in the corresponding months of 1903 there was a surplus of receipts over expenditures amounting to $38,948,616. Receipts both from customs and internal revenue have been smaller this year than last, and there has been an Increase of expenditures on the navy and for pensions. v. What has been called the "ginseng craze" has been so prevalent among farmers in many districts of the Unlb ed States that the Department of Agriculture hat considered It expedient to sound a note of warning. Previous to 1902 China imported from this country only one hundred and seventy-two thousand pounds of ginseng in four years—a quantity which could bs raised on a single farm of seventyflve acres. “Let ginseng alone. It Is s delusion and s snare.”

The Radium Atom.

Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, the English physicist, contends that radium has not upset received scientific doctrines, fee says that those who thought it was an inexhaustible store of energy, or was generating energy afresh which had not previously existed, were mistaken. The radium atom had in it a large store of energy, Just as the sun had. If they could ste radium atoms they would find them, as a rule, as quiet as any other atoms; only one in a million would be seen to be, as it were, smashing up. throwing off bits of itself, and the whole property of radium depended upon that. Everything material was in a state of flux—there was birth, culmination and decay; and this was a characteristic of the material universe—a universe which must have had an origin. The birth of matter as well as the doath of matter was what they were now looking for.

It Pays to Read Newspapers.

Cdx, Wis., July 4.—Frank M. Russell, of this place, had Kidney Disease so bad that he could not walk. He tried Doctors’ treatment and many different remedies, but was getting worse. He was very low. He read In a newspaper bow Dodd’s Kidney Pills were curing cases of Kidney Trouble, Bright’s Disease, and Rheumatism, and thought he would try them. He took two boxes, and now he Is quite well. He says: “I can now work all day, and not feel tired. Before using Dodd’s Kidney Pills, I couldn’t walk across the floor.” Mr. Russell’s Is the most wonderful case ever known in Chippewa County. This new remedy—Dodd’s Kidney Pills—is making some miraculous cures in Wisconsin.

Bad Teeth Cause Dyspepsia.

The close connection between decayed teeth and diseases of the digestion Is pointed out by a medical writer. The presence of free acids in the mouth is particularly harmful. These may come from various sources, but most commonly from the acid fermentation of the carbo-hydrate food lodged on or between the teeth at the gums, and due to the action of micro-organisms present in the mouth. Normally the saliva Is alkaline and any acids produced in the crevices of the teeth are thus neutralized and decay prevented. There are two conditions under which the saliva Is unable to neutralize the acids produced locally—namely: First, when it is deficient In alkalinity, and, second, yrhen it is deficient in quantity. As to the former, It is well known that the saliva becomes less alkaline or even acid In any condition of prolonged gastric digestion, a phenomenon which occurs in nearly all cases of dyspepsia. Moreover, the teeth when decayed further tend to keep np the state of chronic dyspepsia by rendering masMcation Imperfect A vicious circle 13 thus established. To obviate this form of dental disease the teeth should be washed frequently with a solution of which one of the ingredients is bicarbonate of soda. This may prevent one of the most disagreeable results of the disease —facial neuralgia.

Fifty Men and One Elephant.

Interesting tests were made recently In the Madison Square Garden, New York, to determine the respective pulling power of horses, men and elephants. . Two horses, weighing 1,600 pounds each, together pulled 8,700 pounds, or 550 pounds more than their combined weight. One elephant, weighing 12,000 pounds, pulled 8,750 pounds, or 8,250 pounds less than his weight Fifty men, aggregating about 7,500 pounds in weight, pulled 8,750 pounds, or just as much as the single elephant But, like the horses, they pulled more than their own weight One hundred men pulled 12,000 pounds.

TWO STEPS

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SOAP TREE OF ALGERIA.

Steps Are Being Taken to Manufacture on a Large Scale. Consul-General Guenther, at Frank-fort-on-the-Maln, Germany, sends in a breezy letter to the Department of Commerce in which lie tells about the "soap tree” of Algeria, says the Washington correspondent of the New York Herald. There are soap plants and soap trees. First, there is the soapwort. which every Dutch and Belgian, Danish, German and Austrian housewife raises in her garden and uses as she would soap, the leaves yielding a profuse lather. Then there is the Leucocrinum montanura, a kind of lily, which -grows upon the slopes of the liocky Mountains, and which the Digger Indians used to catch trout by filling the waters of the pool in which the fish live full of the soapy lather of this root, thus making the trout ill and causing them to rise to the surface. Then there is the Lechuguilla (Agave heteracantba), a variety of century plant, the roots of which the Mexicans use for soap, and the amole (Ohlorogalum pomeridianum), a sort of lily used by the Mexicans of lower California for soap. But, according to Consul Guenther,' the soap tree differs from all these in the respect that it all but bears cake 3 of nice castile soap instead of fruit or berries. Heretofore all these plans, from soap tree to soap berry, have been used simply by seml-civilized folk In place of commercial soap, but now it appears the Algerian soap tree Is to be turned to commercial purposes. Consul Guenther says: “German papers report that steps are being taken In Algeria to manufacture natural soap on a large scale from a tree known as Sapindus utilis. This tree, which has long been known in Japan, China and India, bears a fruit of about the size of a horsechestnut, smooth and round. The color varies from a yellowish green to brown. The Inner part Is of a dark color and has an oily kernel. “The tree bears fruit In its sixth year and yields from fifty-five to 220 pounds of fruit, which can be easily harvested in the fall. By using water or alcohol the saponaceous ingredient of the fruit is extracted. The cost of production is said to be small, and the soap, on account of possessing no alkaline qualities, is superior to the ordinary soap of commerce.”

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A Disagreeable Job.

A washerwoman applied for help to a gentleman, who gave her a note to the manager of a certain club. It read as follows, “Dear Mr. X.: This woman wants washing.” Very shortly afterward the answer came back: “Dear Sir: I dare say she does, but I don’t fancy the job.”

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Worse than Calm.

Church —And you say ho is calm in the face of danger? Gotham—Calm’s no word for it. Why, when his wife gets after him he never says a word!

A Lingering Hope.

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A Dangerous Plot.

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