Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-12-28

a. T.
He breaths his own rndanntS| - ..;,.
ne trembling Ministers and >Hays
Generals. and Inspires hopsY IA IL ver
depths OF despair. An alike ~ s.iuc
lively that thigis
Tho only Mas wko Can{sass MAN.
and they do his biddmp. f6reisper and mn
believer though he Is, as implicitly As If /
were that of the Sultan himself.
Sebastanis hrst care is 10 hoodw;nk ths
English Admiral By = show Of NEGOTIATION
The ENJOYS sent 10 treat with him ara Il
structed BY the willy Colonel to feisu an IN
conditional submission to the demands 3
the British government but at the sam,
time to spin out-as long a. possible the adj
justment fthe vsrious points Meanvh;ls
ell the thousands Of Constantipople and n,
enylrons, relieving each other in turn ever
tew bours, work night and day at tbs 10.
nenehmentS. as the Russians Of Sebastonol
viii do half century later. The whole ga.
ward 'front.' OF the city is one creeping ant.
hill OF buoy labor, under the eye of one
whose keen military Oversight and profound
knoSledge OF engineering let not one spade-
tul Of earth be turned in, vain. Women.
children, old men hsrdly able tostand, are
seen
rofling on the Batteries,
and casting many an anxious glance south-
ward to watch for the first movement Of the
dreaded "Kapitsn Pasha" of England.
work, servants OF the Prophet, work for
your lives Though knees tremble, and
eyes ache, and hands grow numb with
fatigue, work still If the English ships
come on before we are ready al is over
with Stamboul the Magnificent Work, one
and allP'
And so for FIVE days and FIVE nights the
unparalleled struggle goes on, a colossal
match against time, with kingdom for a
stake. But ct length, on the fifth night the
great work is completed, and Sebastian
boldly throws of the mask with words of
stern defiance, revealing to his astounded
enemy, as if by sudden fash of lightning
hefatal strstagem and the full measure of
its success. Bitterly enough, now that il is
too late, does the outwitted Admiral curse
bis own infsiuation. But what can be
done? The batteries which single boats
crew might have carried week ago now
bristle with guns numerous and heaYy
enough TO send his whole fleet to the bot
tom. The only thing to do now is to
Retreat rs Quickly rs Possible.
But the remorseless energy of the French
envoy not content with cbeckmatiur his
enemys advance, has proTiiedthe means of
dealing murderous blow at his retreat.
The terrible batteries of the Dardanelles,
almost useless when the Eagish ran through
the strait fortnight ago, are nov armed
and manned. developed in whirlwind of
FIRE and cannon shot the doomed squadron
battles through that desily passage with
the loss of $50 brave men, and the Ad-
mirsrs own flagship bears back with her to
England huge stone bal more than foot
in diameter, driven deep through her stoutest
timbers
This historical cannon ball now stands
with the word "Dardanelks' engraved upon
it, on pedestal midway along the north
terrace At Windsor Castle, near the On
trance Of the Queens tate apartments, q
wonder to cockney exGirsionists and top.
booted Berkshire isrmss, and lasting
monument of the pisneadedness which
sends John Bull blun6ring into all man.
ner of scrspes, and ne stubborn valor
whtreTith he always fights his way out
sgain.