Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 127, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1904 — Page 2

Woman The Mystery

CHAPTER I. three fatal days in June, 1848, and the Rm St. Jacques was a pandemonium. Ths whole street was one long line of barricades made of stones, timber, overturned wagons and handcarts, barrels, furniture—anything, in fact, desperate *»en could lay their hands on and pile ■p high as a breastwork. Overhead the fierce June sun blasted on a cloudless sky, and the soldiers panted with the parching heat, their faces black with powder, their uniforms torn to ah reds. Shirt-sleeved and bareheaded, they fought on, leaving no man alive where they had passed. Wihile the satanic din roared and crashed in the street below, an old man sat on the top floor of a small, tumbledown building at the back of one of the meanest houses. He was tall and thin. A girl of some sixteen or seventeen summers, as frail in figure as the man, with a face which as yet gave but little apparent promise of a beauty to come but for a curious glitter in a pair of big, deep-blue eyes, crouched in a corner of the room, holding her hands to her ears. The man rose at last. His right leg was paralyzed, and he dragged it along painfully and awkwardly as he walked. He limped slowly to the closed door, and listened. “They are coming nearer,'’ he gasped, while his face grew whiter and his eyes glittered feverishly. "They are coming nearer. They will' kill me like a dog, Uke a rat, like a snake!" The girl rose and went to him and threw her white arms around his neck and clung to him. “There may be an escape,” she whispered, hoarsely. “Surely they will not kill an old man like you, who is unarmed and can do no harm.” “I know better,” he growled. “They bave not forgotten that my ‘Song of .the Streets’ was sung in every wine shop. They will kill me, and—there, I do not mind. One or two bayonet thrusts, and there will be an end. I have lived long enough in this world; I am tired of being hunted ahd of dragging myself from cellar to roof, and from roof to cellar.” She clung to him again and kissed his .cold lips. An instinctive shudder crept through him at the touch, and he -panted, aa with one convulsive and nearly agonised clutch he gripped her by the shoulder and looked into her big eyes. “I am not so very terrible?” he questioned, with a feverish tremor. “Am I a wolf or a tiger?” “No, father, dear.” she said; “you are the best and the kindest of men. If you would only confide in me, if you would only tell me why you are always so troubled, why such a load seems always to be crushing you down? And now, iu this terrible hour, who knows? There may be hope for you still.” * “There is somebody coming up the atairs,” he cried, with gaunt terror in every feature. "Go and see who it is.” “It is I—Henri,” said a youthful male roice, husky with excitement. “Let me in quick, there is not a moment to be lost.” The girl hastily unlocked and unbolted ♦he door, and a young man, rather short and stoutly built, entered the room. He wab a good-looking young fellow, with the careless dash of the French revolutionist written large on his handsome, dark-bearded features. “I have seen him!” he cried, the moment he crossed the threshold. “That Englishman whom you pointed out to me. He is with the Nationals.” The old man staggered back to his chair, and held on to it, shaking as -in an ague. “How do you know? How do you know it is he?” he gasped. “I know it is he,” retorted the young man, excitedly. "He was not ten paces from me at the barricade by Dumont's butchery, and he glared at me ns I fired my pistol at him. I missed him; I wish I had killed him. I have come to tell you, to warn you!” There was a pause of a few heartbeats’ space, during which the old man rocked himself to and fro on his chair, tapping his thin- legs with his open palms. “How long will it be before he will be here?” h# asked at last, in a guttural whisper. “Fifteen minutes, perhaps.” was the •newer; “perhaps twenty, perhaps half an hour. But lie may be here in five, if things go badly.” “Very well," exclaimed the old man. “I am ready. Thank you for having warned me.” The young man gave a glance around the room, and looked at the girl with burning eyes. “And Helene?” he said, slowly, and with an amazing tenderness; “what about her? Had she not better come with me?” His voice was broken by emotion. “No!” nearly screamed the old man. “Arc you road? Go with you, to be killed in the street! Why should she go with you? Go away! Leave us! You are wasting your time and mine!” The young man shrugged his shoulders, and then held out a hand. “We may never see one another •gain,” he said: “tfnmn—.rqo.l-l.^”. ... ■ * paused again for a nioand then gripped the out’"Suctched hand nervously. “You are right." lie said. "Henri, I had forgotten. You are a good lad—you always were. We may never meet •gal n. Good-by for this world!” The girl had been standing in a comer of the room silently, and as the young aoao turned round she looked at him with ■ world of pleading iu her big eyes, lie ■tapped to her and kissed her ou the forehead without another word. “Good-by, Ileleue," he whispered. “Wibcai I am dead you will perhaps think «f me now and then. Good-by!” With that he rushed out, and the girl flaathictively closed the door again and bolted It. . CHAPTER 11. The old nun sat silently for half a admfte'a space after Henri had left the looa and hia eyea wandered hither and 4hWbtr round the place, aa if searching tor a solution of a puzzle which worried “i hare it!" ha exclaimed at last, ria-

By HENRY HERMAN

ing excitedly. “You must not remain -here: —I know a way;” ’ — The rooan was a tiny one, barely ten feet square, and even part of that space was rendered useless by the slanting of the garret, roof. There was but one little window high up in the wall, and it could only be reached by standing on a chair. Even that was shuttered, and the light entered but sparsely. "Open the shutter there,” said the old man quietly—so quietly now that the difference of tone sounded remarkable even to Helene, who was habituated to his changes of moods. "Look out cautiously. See if you notice smoke afeross the unfinished building opposite, or signs of fighting.” Helene brought a stool and stepped on it, and peered out between the partly opened shutters. “They have .passed the house in the other street, father,” she said. “They are fighting perhaps fifty yards away.” “Thank heaven for that!” exclaimed the old man. “There is time to save you yet.” lie limped toward the trunk that stood in the corner, and took from it a coil of rope. "Take this, my girl,” he said. “You must get into the store closet. The little window there is at the side and sheltered from view by the projection of the main building. You can get out that way unobserved. You are light and lithe and can lower yourself with this to the roof of the shed below. Is there anybody in the. yard?” “Nobody,” said the girl; “not a soul.” “I cannot do it myself,” he went on, calmly. “Lam too old, and I am a cripple; but you can get away in that manner. When you are on the roof of the shed you can let yourself down from that into the. yard. After that you can make yonr way out into the street as soon as it is safe. They won’t hurt a girl like you, but they would kill me like a dog.” "But, father,” pleaded the girl, “I do not want to go away. I do not want to leave you. 1 want to stay here with you.” "Nonsense!” he answered. “That would be sinful. That would be horrible. You will have to get away, and when you are safe in the street, go straight to Mr. Adams. You have only to tell him that I sent you, and he will take care of you.” “Mr. Adams?" asked the girl. “That AmerK a who came here last week?” "TF >ame. You know where he lives. You took a message from me to him. Now run, my child,” and he coiled the rope round her waist. "There,” he said; "you will be able to use it mose easily in this way. You will get away all right.” She clung to him still and kissed his white face. “I do not wan’t to go,” she begged. “1 really do not want to go.” “Yon must,” he retorted, “you shall—” And so saying, he pushed the gently resisting girl toward the store closet. On a sudden, however, a quiver of anguish convulsed his features, his eyes stared wildly, and he gasped as his lips opened and closed in mute, feverish agitation. He staggered forward and reached out a wildly fumbling hand, crying: l “Stay! I cannot let you go like that. There is not a moment to be lost, and I must tell you before I die.” She turned to him with a blank dismay in her eyes, while his voice became hoarser, and his breathing more painful. "You are very ill, father, dear,” she cried. “That’s just it,” he said, “that’s why I called you back. You call me father. Let me coirfess it—it is better thus—l am not jour father. Do not look at me so accusingly.” The girl retreated step by step to the wall, and stood there with an outstretched arm on either side of her, staring at the old man in an awe-struck amazement. "Yes," he said more quietly, “I am not your father. I have even been accused of having murdered your father.” Helene gave a shriek aud gripped her hair in both hands. “Do not think so ill of me,” he went on. "Do not think that the charge was true. I did not murder him. He had wronged me —he had bitterly wronged me —he had robbed me of the woman whom I loved better than myself. He had robbed me of all earthly happiness, of all hope; of all light of life, but I did not kill him. \Ye had a quarrel. It was on the cliff side, and he stumbled and fell over into the sea aud was drowned, and they said I hud murdered *him, but I did not. They hunted me from town to town, from house to house, from forest to swamp, but 1 escaped them; and more than that. I brought you with me. you, his child, the child of the woman I adored; tinier and daintier, but so nlike, that ns she was lost to me, I determined to keep j'ou by my side as a soothing remembrance of a love that was strau gled.” . He knelt down and dragged himself to her, and dung to her garments. "1 have been a father to you, l, ave I net ?" he went on, with hot Uiirn I not given y° l1 i b. r meat q£jV.v_iU , ' a V ! r 'Have I eaten u crust without sharing it with you? Tell me, that I may die in peace.” The girl stood there with a face aa white as the man’s, her eyes nearly starting from their sockets, her lips blanched. Finally she came to him quietly, took his head between her two hands and kissed him on the forehead. “I do not know what to do,” she said, softly and tenderly. “I do not know what to think, but that you have been like a father to me I can swear. Must I leave you now? Must I go away from you now, when you are in such dreadful danger? Why should I not share it as you shared it with me?” He looked at her ns if his heart wero bursting with a secret still concealed. A flash of yearning despair gleamed in his ej'ee, and in another moment he might bave spoken again. But the crashes and the roar in the street outside increased On n sudden, snd from the yard caine the hoarse shouts and cries and piercing yells and muffled groans, the fury of the virtors and the anguish of the dying. “Away!” be cried, madly; "away!

They will be here in another moment. Away!” Helene stood looting at him for two or three seconds’ space, but he clutched her by the shoulder and pushed her into the store closet. He slammed the little door, and Immediately pushed a heavy trunk against it, piling another one on that, and throwing a rug over the whole, so as to hide the door as much as possible. He listened for, awhile, and even amid the din he thought he could hear the girl’s movements as she unfastened the tiny window and crept out oh to the roof.' Then all was lost to him amid the awful noise in the yard below. He stood for a second or two, as if undecided what to do; then, with a sudden impulse, he lifted up one of the planks of the floor, and looked down into the dark space below: By kneeling and stretching out an arm he reached a square packet, weighing some three or four pounds. He cut the string with Ids knife and opened the paper. It contained gunpowder. That done, he stretched out his arm again, and touched three or four other packets, and thus assured himself of their place—simply inserting his knife in each, and ripping them partly open. Then he replaced the packet which he had taken out, and scattered part of the loose gunpowder near it and around it between the rafters close to the other packets. After that he rose, and, limping to a little chest of drawers in the corner, took from it a cotton fuse, about three or four yards in length. He cut a piece from this, and inserted it well among the loose gunpowder, pulled the end of the fuse through a hole in the floor close to his own chair, and taking a handful of matches from his pocket, sat himself down and waited, while a calm smile settled on his face. “I shall die,” he said, “as I had hoped, in harness, and with my secret locked iu my heart. He has discovered me at last, then. lie can come as soon as he likes, Mr. Walter Glaydes—the Honorable Walter Glaydes; the golden bird has flown away, and he will be able to recommence the hunt —that is-to say, if he be alive.” He feebly clapped his hands, and listened, with body forward, bent for the sounds on the staircase. The roar below continued, and he drew himself up, breathing a heavy sigh. “Her brother’s son!” he muttered; “Lord Yorley’s son, Agatha’s nephew, and Helene’s cousin. Another of the brood who sold my love away from me and afterward hunted me over the face of the earth. So he is intent on finding her,” ho sneered; “so noble-minded, so disinterested! Helene's millions, Helene’s lands—'they offer no attraction. Of course not! Master Walter is only impelled by pure love for his fair, his wronged cousin! Ha! ha! He will not find her. She shall not be contaminated by the gold which broke my life in two, which wrecked all my hopes. For gold her mother was bartered away from me. She shall be untouched by the curse. He knows her not, has never seen her since she was a baby. Now she is free, and I can trust the man to whom she goes to guard her against that crew for all the world.” CHAPTER 111. The face of the tenth barricade in the Rue St. Jacques was silent; no more flashes of musketry, no more .puffs of smoke. Every one of the defenders lay behind the barrier of stones', dead or dj'ing. A little further up the street another crowd of desperate men stubbornlj 1 awaited the charge of the National Guards, who swarmed over the barricades with hard-set lips, aud bayonets red with human blood. “On!” cried the captain. “Down with them! Kill the dogs!” And they swept on, smashing away at the doors of houses, bursting in shutters with the butt-ends of their muskets, rushing upward aud onward, and pinning the unfortunate wretches whom they found against the walls like so many flies. Two men charged among that furious crowd, both of them eager to reach the heart of the fight, both of them rushing onward, sword and pistol in hand, but neither of them really bloodthirsty at heart nor cruelly disposed to their fellow 1 creatures. One of them was a broad-chested, straight-limbed young fellow of about four and twenty, fair-haired and blueeved; a set of white teeth shone beneath a stubby reddish mustache, its color barely 1 distinguishable amid the grime of powder and dirt with which the whole faee was besmeared. (To be continued.)

Accounted For.

A certain football club had received its first reverse of the season. This was the more galling when the defeated ones reflected that their conquerors had absolutely no pretentions to “class” being, on paper at least, tho weakest team In the district. Returning to headquarters after th*. match there was one man who seemed to feel the defeat more keenly than anyone else. lie was the trainer oG the team. “How did It all happen, Ben?” asked a supporter who hud been unable to attend tlyj. mutch. “SujMon!” growled the trainer, sudden!” “Yes; but how came we to lose?” “This way.f’ replied Ben. “For eighty-nine minutes out o' the ninety our fellows had b n en showing the spectators how to play football. Then one o’ the other chaps pounced on the ball and showed our fellows how to score! That’s all!”

Had a Close Call.

The Rabbit —I had a narrow escape from being killed by an amateur sportsman to-day. The Grouse —Was he such a good shot? The Rabbit -No, but when the gun kicked It knocked him over aud he almost sat on me.—Puck.

Wifely Concession.

Advice Is often too good to be taken, but a very agreeable variety was one* given by James Russell Ixiwell to a young woman about to be married: “Always give your husband—your own way.” The knife one girl given another will not cut friendship—and the odds are that It won’s cut melted butter, elthor.

ASKS PEACE MEETING.

HAY ISSUES CALL FOR SECOND HAGUE CONFERENCE. Secretary of State Instructs Country's Diplomatic Representatives to Urge Congress at Posts at Which They Serve—Would Not Delay for the War. In a circular note made public Sunday Secretary of State Hay has carried out President Roosevelt’s Instructions relative to proposing a second Hague conference. The note not only contemplates the reassembling of The Hague , conference for the consideration of questions specifically mentioned by the original conference as demanding further attention, such as the rights and duties of neutrals, the Inviolability of private property in naval warfare and the of ports by naval force, but goes further by practically Indorsing the project of a general system of arbitration treaties and the establishment of an international congress to meet periodically In the interests of peace. The Issue of the call while the present war Is In progress Is justified by the fact that the first Hague conference was called before our treaty of peace with Spain was concluded. The note Is addressed to “the Representatives of the United States Accredited to the Governments Signatories to the Acts of The Hague Conference, 1899,” and in part follows: The peace conference which- assembled at The Hague on May 18, 1899, marked an epoch in the history of nations. Called by his mnjesty the Emperor of Russia to discuss the problems of the maintenance of general peace, the regulation of the operations of war and the lessening of the burdens which preparedness- for eventual war entails upon modern peoples, its labors resulted iu the acceptance by the signatory powers of conventions for the peaceful adjustment of international difficulties by arbitration, and for certain humane amendments to the laws and customs of war by land and sea. A great work was thus accomplished by the conference, while other phases of the general subject were left to discussion by another conference in the near future, such as questions affecting the rights and duties of neutrals, the inviolability of private property in naval warfare and the bombardment of ports, towns and villages by a naval force. Among the movements which prepared the minds of government for an accord in the direction of assured peace among men, a high place may fittingly be given to that set on foot by the Interparliamentary Union. From its origin In the suggestions of a member of the British House of Commons In 1888, it developed until its membership included large numbers of delegates from the parliaments ot the principal nations, pledged to exert their influence toward the conclusion of treaties of arbitration between nations and toward the accomplishments of peace. Its annual conferences have notably advanced the high purposes it sought to realize. Not only have many International treaties of arbitration been concluded, but, in the conference held in Holland in 1894, the memorable declaration In favor of a permanent court of arbitration jvas a forerunner of the most important achievement of the peace conference of The Hague in 1899. The annual conference of the Interparliamentary Union was held this year at St. Louis, in appropriate connection with the world’s fair. Its deliberations were marked by the same noble devotion to the cause of peace and to the welfare of humanity which had inspired its former meetings. By the unnnimous vote of delegates, active or retired members of the American Congress and of every parliament in Europe, with two exceptions, the following resolution was adopted:

Whereas, Enlightened public opinion and modern civilization alike demand that differences between nations should be adjudicated and settled In the same manner as disputes between Individuals are adjudicated, namely, by the arbitrament of courts In accordance with recognized principles of law, this conference requests the several governments of the world to send delegates to an International conference, to be held at a time and place to be agreed upon by them for the purpose of considering: 1. The questions for the consideration of which t(ie conference at The Hague expressed a wish that a future conference be called. 2. The negotiation of arbitration treaties between the nations represented at the conference be convened. 8. The advisability of establishing an International congress to convene periodically for the discussion of International questions. And this conference respectfully and cordially requests tho President of the United States to Invite all the nations to send representatives to such a conference. On the ,24th of September, ultimo, these rjiAolutions were presented to the by a numerous deputation of .thctTuterparlinmentnry Union. The President accepted the charge offered to him, feeling it to be most appropriate that tho executive of tho nation which had welcomed tho conference to its hospitality should givo voice to its Impressive utterances in a cause which the American government anti people hold dear. He announced that he would at an enrly day invite the other nations, parties to The Hague conventions, to reassemble with a view to pushing forward toward completion the work already. begun at The Hague, by considering the questions which the first conference lad left unsettled, with tho express provision that there should be a second conference. In accepting this trust, th» President was not unmindful of the sac, so vividly brought home to all the wirld, that a great war is now in progro*. He recalled tho circumstnncc that,at the time when, on Aug. 24, 1898, his najesty the Emperor of Russia sent forth his invitation to the nations to meet ii the interests of peace, the United ttates and Spain had merely halted iu th<r struggle to devise terms of pence. Wffle at the present moment no armistice btween the parties now contending is In fight, the fact of an existing war is no rason why the nations should relax the of>rts they have so successfully made hi'ierto toward the adoption of rules a. conduct which may make more rothte the chances of future wars betweegthem. In 1899 the conference of The Htue dealt solely with the larger which confront all nations, and'seamed no function of Intervention or ritgsatloo la the settlement of the terms t pesos

between the United States *nd Spall* It might be the same with a reassert* bled conference at the present time. Ita efforts would naturally lie in the direction of further codification of the universal ideas of right and justice which we call international law; its mission would be to give them future effect. The President directs that you will bring the foregoing considerations to the attention of the minister for foreign affairs of the government to which you are accredited, and, in discreet conference Kith him, ascertain to what extent that government is disposed to act in the matter. ——

MORE MONEY SPENT IN SCHOOLS

Public Systems of Country Increase Expenditures by $16,000,000. The report of the commissioner of education for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1904, made public by the Secretary of the Interior, shows that 10,009,361 pupils, or 20 per cent of the entire population of the country, attended the pubiio schools during that year. As compared with the previous six years this percentage shows a slight decrease in the number of pupils as compared with total population. The total cost of the public school system is given ns 1251,457,025. This is an increase of $16,000,000 over the previous j ear. It amounts to $3.15 per capita of total population and $22.75 per capita per pupil. Since 1870 the proportion of male teachers has decreased from 39 per cent of the entire number to 26 per cent of the entire number the past year. The enrollment in the private schools for the year is given as 1,093,876. By the addition of pupils In elementary schools, ncademies, institutions for higher education, evening schools, business schools, private kindergartens, Indian schools, State schools and schools for defective the grand total of 18,187,918 pupils is reported. The report estimates that the average schooling given to each Inhabitant in 1870 was 672 days and in 1903 1,034 days. The report shows that last year 1,578,632 colored children were enrolled in the common schools for that race in the former sixteen slave States and the District of Columbia. The enrollment in 1877, the first year statistics were taken of the colored schools, was 571,506. Since 1870 it is estimated that $130,000,000 has Jjeen expended in the education of the colored children in the former slave States and nearly $600,000,000 for the same purpose for the white children of the same section. Ninety-six reform schools are recorded, with 31,468 inmates, 21,603 of whom are learning useful trades.

IN NATURE'S WONDERLAND.

Touring the Yellowstone Now Easy— Long Dormant Geyser Is Active. After being dormant for four years, “Splendid” geyser, in the Upper Geyser Basin, Yellowstone Park, is again active, and its eruptions occur at the intervals of about three hours. General Passenger Agent A. M. Cleland of the Northern Pacific, who has returned from a trip through the Yellowstone Park, Is very enthusiastic over the scenic beauties of the big government reserve and much astonished at the ease and comfort with wh'bh the travel inside the park boundaries is handled. “The stage trip of 150 miles Is accomplished without fatigue,” he said, “and the hotel accommodations everywhere are excellent. The new hotel at Upper Geyser Basin Is a wonder to all the tourists who visit it. It is of enormous size, and built of logs throughout, the rustic appearance being preserved even in the guest rooms. The ax, saw and hammer built the entire structure. There isn’t a yard of plaster in the entire building. The fireplaces are built of big boulders, and the hotel Is simply the rough product of the forest It is extremely beautiful, and has every comfort. “From the tower a searchlight Is operated. I saw Old Faithful by searchlight, and the sight was magnificent. One of the features of the trip was to see the searchlight man chase the bears with the powerful beam of light. The bears are afraid of the electric glare, and ran like scared sheep whenever the rnys were turned on them. On a dark night the searchlight develops many odd and Interesting sights.”

Strong Words Against Hazing.

Chancellor McCracken, in his owning address delivered In the chapel of New York University to more than 300 students, took occasion to rebuke the tendency of unruly college men to expend their surplus energies in lawlessness, and bullying underclassmen. On this line he said: “Possibly the formation of such clubs as I suggest may offer an outlet for the superfluous energy which -is overflowing 1“ college students at the beginning of the school year, especially among those who have just become sophomores. Such students often form clubs with the unavowed object of committing nets of a mischievous and sometimes criminal nature. From such organizations arise cases of attacks by a dozen stout fellows upon some solitary victim picked for hazing, or the destruction of public or private property. The best cVfib for such fellows as these is the man’s club, and the best meeting place the station house or the bar of the police judge.”

OLD WORLD NOTABLES

The Sultan of Turkey has seventy-one titles. King Victor Emmanuel is the most expert end enthusiastic of royal motorists. Queen Alexandra’s eyes are deep blue, and retain the mingled softness and fire of youth. The queen mother, Margherka of Italy, U preparing to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. The Khedive of Egypt neither smokes nor drinks, is an early riser, and speaks six languages. Albert, reigning prince of Thorn and Toxls, wears a new aitit of cloth os every day and 1,000 cravwts a ysar. Lord Talbot of Malahids has offered to eeH bis estate to bis tenants under the new Irieh land act This is said to bo tbs oaly lusts nee of an Irish baronial estate continuing in th# mala lino for ala and * half esuturisa.

MONTHS OF CARNAGE.

AWFUL SLAUGHTER ON SLOPEB OF PORT ARTHUR. Story of Fighting Around the Russian Stronghold Forms One of the Bloodiest Chapters in History—Slaughter Has Continued Over Three Months. Since August 1 the operations against Port Arthur have cost thousands of lives, and embrace a series of fierce assaults, hand-to-hand struggles and artillery duels without parallel in history. When the Japanese drove the Russians from their strong position on the last range of hills in front of the fortress by a surprise attack July 30 the Russians retired to the forts, but they also strongly held previously prepared advance lines to prevent the Japanese from closing in upon the fortified ridges. This line of forts was fourteen miles long, forming a semi-circle from the oust coast to four miles from the west coast aud circling five miles northwest Of Port Arthur. The fortress belt proper was a twelve-mile semi-circle

GENERAL STOESSEL.

from coast to coast. The Japanese position was a mile from the advance Russian line in the center of a range of hills called Fenghoano Mountain. Results of the operations since are as follows: August 7. —General bombardment stopped Russian fire from Takhu and Shakhu mountains; eight regiments climbed to crest of Takhu, and, after desperate hand-to-hand' fight, drove the Russians into their permanent forts and captured four field guns. August B.—Heavy Japanese attack before daylight on Shakhu mountain repulsed but successfully renewed; Russians left hundreds of dead in the abandoned positions; Japanese casualties, 1,400. August 14.—Two Japanese brigades captured important positions on the Russian left flank, after suffering frightful losses in cutting a way through entanglements under heavy fire. August 19.—Covered by. heavy bombardment Japanese infantry made a general advance under a withering fire and captured fort on west slope of 174 yards hill at point of bayonet; took five field guns and four machine guns; Jap casualties, 1,400 ; 350 Russian dead found in position. Russians abandoned Keekwan Fort, set afire by a shell, but repulsed infantry attack on other forts. August 21. —Russians attacked and recaptured Keekwan Fort, but later in the day, without orders, a Japanese regiment broke ranks, stormed the height in face of a point-blank fire and recaptured the position at the bayonet point; West Bnnjußan fort also captured. August 23.—Japanese captured remainder of Banjusan forts, forcing the Itussinns back to foot of fortified hills. Japanese casualties from August 19 officially put at 14,000. August 25 to September 18.—Russians sortie and nttack working parties almost every night, while guns l>ombnrded by day. Quarter not asked or given; stretcher bearers fired on and killed. October 2.—Fire directed on battleship Pobieda. Fifth shot pierced forward decks of ship, sending up huge columns of smoke and leaving a gaping rent. Russians placed hospital ship in line of fire to protect other warships. October 13.—The West Urh fort damaged. Battleship Fcrosviet struck by several shells from the howitzers and caught fire. Golden Hill Fort greatly, damaged. October 10.—Japanese attacked an inLenciied hill enlled Hachimake Ynma, between the east Urh and west Benjamin forts. Under cover of a tremendous bombardment the companies of the center division charged the glacis with baj-onets and captured the trenches at the crest. October 20 to November 3.—Furious general attack begun with the object of forcing surrender before Nov. 3, the Mikado’s birthday. Five warships reported sunk and Ribbing mountain aud Sungshu mountain, which lies between the rnilroad and Ribbing mountain, captured.

LIBERAL VICTORY IN CANADA.

Lnurler Hue Majority of Nearly Seventy—Borden Loses Sent. Sir Wilfrid Lauricr and the Liberal purty are masters of Canada. The party which has heed in power for the Inst eight years has swept the dominion overwhelmingly against the Conservatives, under the leadership of Robert Laird Borden, From latest reports the Liberals appear to have gained one of the most complete triumphs in the history of Canadian politics and, contrary to general expectation, they will have a larger majority in the new parliament than in the old. They are assured of a majority of nearly seventy, ns against their lato majority of fifty-four. The results show mnny surprises. The' defection of former Minister Tarto lias had no effect in the province of Quebec, and the Conservatives elect only ten members there. French sentiment was too strong in this stronghold of ths Frcnch-Canadiaiis to be shaken in any degree. In Ontario, where the conservatives expected to make a large gain, the Libersis hare scored instead and hare cut down the former Conservative majority of fifteen to six.

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