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The San Francisco call., 1904-04-22
AMERICAN MARINES RETIRE.

SEOUL. Korea, April 21.-Lieutenant
Douglas c. Mcdonald, United States
marine corps, and seventy priyates of
the marine guard which had been on
duty at the American legation here
have been ordered to leave. They will
sail from Chemulpo on the United
States cruiser Raleigh for Manila.
During their stay here the American
marines have been crowded in small
house in the legation compound. The
impossibility Of housing the men prop
erly during the hot weather, the tran
quill conditions prevailing at Seoul at
the present time and the presence in
the city of japanese garrison suffi-
cient to quell any disturbance which
may arise have led the American au-
thorities to decide upon the reduction
of the legation guard.
The San Francisco call., 1904-04-22
sAMURAI CUSTOM IN VOGUE.
Japanese Volunteers Sign Applications
With Their Own Blood.

With Their Own Blood.
TOXIC, April 21.-The War Office
here is flooded with thousands of ap-
plications from Japanese of all ages
and every condition of life for permits
sion to go to the front and fight. These
applications are from time-expired SOL
diers, as well as from young boys, and
the ages Of the applicants range from
IA to 10 years. They are following the
Samurai custom and sign their appli-
cations with their own blood, and sew
eral applications written entirely in the
blood of the would-be fighters have
been received. None of these volun-
teers have been accepted as yet.
The War Department officials are
much gratified at this evidence of the
desire of the people to assist in the
war. The applications have been filed
away, and If volunteers are needed
these applicants will be given the first
opportunities to go to the front. The
officials believe that the country would
find 1t easy to obtain half-million vol
unteerS.
The San Francisco call., 1904-04-22
TWO JAPANESE STAFF Off
Colonel and Captain Pay the Penalty
for Blowing Up a Railroad.

HARDIN, Manchuria, April 21.-The
two officers of the Japanese general
staff, a colonel and a captain. who were
arrested by the railroad guard eighteen
miles from this place on April 16 were
found guilty by a court-martial and
sentenced to be hanged. The officers
listened quietly to the sentence of the
court, but subsequently asked that
their lives be spared.
General Kuropatkin confirmed the
findings of the court, but taking into
consideration the fact that the accused
were soldiers he ordered that they
should be shot instead of hanged. The
sittings of the court-martial attracted
a large attendance, including many
ladies.
ST. PETERSBURG. April 21.--In a
telegram to the Emperor, General Ku-
ropatkin says:
II respectfully report to your Majesty
that two Japanese officers, named
Stcevo Ykoka and Giska Oki, were ar
rested near the station of Turchikhi. In
their possession were found three cases
of Bickford fuse, French wrench, dy-
Mantle cartridges, tools for railway
wrecking, cylinders containing one and
half pounds of pyroxylin, good maps
of Mongolia, Manchtria and Northern
Korea and a number of notes.
"A court-martial held at Harbin on
April 20 found them guilty, while be-
longing to the Japanese army Of oper-
ating against Russia, and in order to
gain success for their army of destroy
ing or damaging telegraph and railway
communication by means OF pyroxylin
and other accessories provided for that
The San Francisco call., 1904-04-22
Japanese Said to
Have Landed at
Newchwang.
Bombardment Pre-
cedes Their De-
barkation.
Special Dispatch to The Call.


NEW YORK, April 21.-The World
has the following from st. Petersburg;
"The Japanese are reported to have
bombarded Newchwang and to have
landed troops, who probably will en-
deavor to effect a junction with the
forces supposed to have landed near
the mouth of the Yalu River three
days ago."
The Times cablegram from New
chwang says:
The Russians are denuding the ter
ritory west of the Yalu. They have
sent out foraging parties of fifty Cos
sacks, each man being counted upon
to capture one bullock daily. Thus
thousands of cattle were driven into
Mukden for which neither receipt nor
cash was given.'
The San Francisco call., 1904-04-22
peath CaIls Noted Arizonan.

TUCSON. Ariz., April 21-Colonel
James A. Zabriskie, one of the best
known citizens of Arizona and a lead
ing Republican politician of the Ter
ritory, died here to-day He was
United States District Attorney for
Arizona under President Arthur and a
member of the Board Of Regents of
the University of Arizona.
The San Francisco call., 1904-04-22

purpose. and of making their way into
Manchuria secretly, where they were
arrested by Russian patrols thirty
versts southwest of the station Of Tur-
chikhi, on the Eastern Chinese Rail-
way. The officers wore Monaghan dress
to disguise their nationality
1.-The officers were condemned to be
deprived of their civil rights and to be
executed by hanging. i confirmed the
sentence, but in view of the officers
rank consented that they be shot in
stead of hanged. with the same loss OF
civil rights. 1 refused their prayer to
spare their lives. and they were exc
cuted at o'clock on the evening Of
April 21"
The San Francisco call., 1904-04-22
RUMORs OF A BATTLE.
Belief in Korean Capital That Land
EuDaoemeuf Has Occurred

Special Cable to The Call and New York Her
aid. Copyright 1904. by the. New York
Herald Publishing Company.
SEOUL, April 21.-Strong rumors are
current here of a land engagement yes
terday near the mouth of the Yalu, the
result of which is unknown.
Russian scouts reached Pukcheng.
100 miles north of Wonson. evidently
with the idea of making demonstra-
ton against the latter place, hoping to
draw a Japanese force in that direc-
tion, but a superior force of Japanese
met the Russians and caused them to
retire. Both armies are using the same
tactics on the eastern as on the west
ern Korean coast.
The San Francisco call., 1904-04-22
HOLDS -FOUR SHIPS AT BAY.
Cruiser Bayan Escapes Unscathed
Under Heavy japanese Fire.

Cruiser Bayan Escapes Unscatned
Under Heavy japanese Fire.
PORT ARTHUR, April 21.-Further
details of the action of the cruiser
Bayan during the night of April 1S
show that in covering the retreat Of
the Russian torpedo-boats she ap-
preached within thirty cable lengths
of the enemy in attempting to rescue
the Strashni's crew and stood broad
side to the enemy. keeping four cruis-
ers at bay while she lowered her boats
on the other side and picked up five
sailors.
In spite of the weight of the enemy's
fire not a single man on the .Bayan
was wounded. One of the Bayan's
shells fell between the smokestacks Of
one of the Japanese cruisers, produc-
ing a heavy explosion on board.
The San Francisco call., 1904-04-22
POPE ANXIOUS TO SETTLE
ECCLESIASTIC CONTESTS
Will Shortly Issue Document Making
Equal Concessions to Catholic
Poles and Germans.

ROME. April 21.-Pope Plus. in or
der to reconcile the ecclesiastic con-
tests of the Roman Catholic Poles and
Germans in the United States, is about
to publish document making equal
concessions to both races. 1t is prob
able that these two sections of the
church will be placed under national
Wears, with episcopal Jurisdiction, but
nominally subject to territorial
Bishops. Cardinal Merry del VAL
papal secretary. strongly supports this
innovation. overruling the objections
of various Cardinals and several Amer
lean Bishops.
The San Francisco call., 1904-04-22
REQUIsITTON PAPERS
DEMANDED BY DOYLE
Man Arrested at st. Louis on Com
plant of California Constable Re-
fuses TO Come West

fuses to Come West.
ST. LOUIS, April 21.-W. d. Doyle.
who was arrested here last night on
request of Constable Charles Downing
of Suisun, Cal, refuses to return with
out requisition papers. Doyle was
found with a woman believed to be the
one described by Constable Downing
as another mans wife.
The woman has not been arrest
ed, but viii be sent to California when
Doyle is returned. According to a let
ter from Downing the woman left six
small children in a room to shift for
themselves and the little ones would
have starved to death but for their
timely rescue by the police.
The San Francisco call., 1904-04-22
DecIines a Nomination.

NEW YORK, April 21.-Robert r.
Roosevelt, an uncle of President Roose-
Welt, who was nominated as an elector
by the Democratic State Convention at
Albany last week. has declined to ac-
cept such nomination because of his re-
lationship to the President
The San Francisco call., 1904-04-22
veteran Actor Dies.

LONDON. April 21.-The veteran
actor and playwright, John Coleman,
died to-day. He played with Macready
and collaborated with the novelist,
Charles Reade
The San Francisco call., 1904-04-22

ST. PETERSBURG, April 21.-The
Emperor has received the following
telegram from General Kuropatkin un-
der to-day's date:
"All was quiet on the Yalu on the
18th and goth and there has been no
change.
ION the night of the 10th, opposite
Cape Tower Hill, west Of Kaicheng, a
steamer was observed sending off
boats, evidently for the purpose of taxi
ing soundings. The boats soon re-
turned"
1t is announced that Vice Admiral
Stark, formerly in command of the
Port Arthur fleet. has been appointed
TO the command of the Eighth Depot
fleet, and that Rear Admiral Witboeft
has been appointed chief Of staff to
Viceroy Alexieff.
Viceroy Alexieff has sent to the En-
peror a long detailed account of the
naval engagement of April 13, in which
the torpedo- boat destroyer Strashni
was sunk, and of the loss of the battle
ship PetropavloVsk.
The San Francisco call., 1904-04-22
Pukcheng Not Held by Russians.

SEOUL. Korea, April 21-Latest ad-
vices do not confirm the reported occu-
patton by Russian troops of Pukcheng,
a town about seventy miles down from
Songjin on the east coast of Korea.
The San Francisco call., 1904-04-22
AIexieff May Not Be Retired.

TIENTSIN, April 21.-Russians at
Tientsin do not believe that the recent
resignation Of Admiral Alexieff as
viceroy of the Emperor in the Far East
will be accepted by the st. Petersburg
authorities.
The San Francisco call., 1904-04-22
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The San Francisco call., 1904-04-22
MOB CHASES NEGRO WHO
MURDERED WHITE WOMAN
Armed Texas Posse Follows Colored
Man Said TO Have Committed
Crime

AUSTIN, Tex, April 2L-Armed
posses are in pursuit Of a negro who,
IL is charged, criminally assaulted and
murdered Lulu Sanberg, a white girl,
to-day near Manor. fourteen miles from
this city The young woman was driv-
ing TO town in buggy. when the negro
attacked her. dragged her from the We
hicle and cut her throat with a razor.
The San Francisco call., 1904-04-22
Quiet at Port Arthur.

PORT ARTHUR. April 21.-All quiet
here since April Is. There are no signs
of the enemy's transports off the coast
of the peninsula.
The San Francisco call., 1904-04-22
AMERICA RESERVES RIGHTS.

Foreign Minister Lamsdorff has been
notified that the United States reserves
all the rights she may have under IN
ternational law in the event of any
American citizens being affected by
Russia's decision in the case of war
correspondents using wireless teleg-
raphy. This notification does not in
volve a protest against Russia's
course; it is simply reserving what
ever rights may exist in regard to the
yet unadjudicated question of the use
of wireless telegraphy in time of war.
United States Commercial Agent
Greener at Vladivostok has been in
structed, through ambassador Nc
Cormick, to inform the Japanese Con-
sui at the island of Saghalien that q
vessel will be sent to the island to
take back to Japan the consulate staff
and the refugees. The arrangements
for sending the ship have been made
by Japan through the authorities in
Washington.
Grand Duke Cyril. who was injured
at the time of the Petropavlovsk dis
aster, is protesting against returning
to Russia. He desires, as soon as he
has recovered, to go back to Port Ar
thur, but his mother, the Grand
Duchess Vladimir, is insisting on his
return
The San Francisco call., 1904-04-22
JAPANESE GROW QUEUES.

Manchuria Is Swarming With Spies
Disguised as Chinese
MUKDEN, April 21.-The operations
of the Russians in Manchuria are
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-10-09
POSTOFFICE SHOWS
LARGE INCREASE
RECEIPTS HAVE GAINED OVER 100
PER CENT IN LAST 10 YEARS.
CHANGE IN CAR SCHEDULE Is
MADE.

Bessemer October ESPECIAL 1.-THE re-
port of Postmaster Johnson for the year
ending June 80 shows that the receipts of
the Bessemer postoffice have gained over
a hundred per cent in the last ten years
TIE rapid strides that this city has made
in the last ten years is reflected in the
postal receipts. For the year just passed
ending June 30. 1904, they were $11,142.17
In the year 1893, ending June 80. the re-
ceipts were $541S.49.
In addition to the city business this
postoffice has seven rural free dehv-
cry routes An effort is also being made
to have free deliveries established in
Brighton and Jonesboro. The carriers
are to be mounted and the mail will be
handled through this office.
Congressman Underwood, the popular
congressman from the Ninth district, had
an appropriation passed through congress
to provide a new and modern postoffice
for this city. The government has already
purchased a site In the central part of the
city for the new structure, the necessary
appropriation has been decided upon, and
everything is being gotten In shape for
the real work to begin. The new Besse-
mer government building, when complet-
ed, will be one of the largest and most
modern postoffices in the state
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-10-09
Why tho Japs Are Strong.

From the Medical Record.
The Japanese are allowed to be among
the very strongest people on earth. They
are 1g mentally and physically, and
yet ,ltlcally they eat no meat at all.
The diet which enables them to develop
such hardy frames and such we'll bal
anced and keen brains consists almost
wholly of rice, steamed or boiled, while
the better-to-do add to this Spartan fare
fish, eggs, vegetables and fruit. For bev-
erage they use weak tea, without sugar
or milk, and pure water alcoholic slim
ulants being but rarely INDUCED in. Wa
ter is imbibed in what we should con-
slider prodigious quantities--to an English
man, indeed, the drinking of SO much wa
ter would be regarded as madness. The
average Japanese individual swallows
about a gallon daily in divided doses.
The Japanese recognize the beneficial
effect of flushing the system through the
medium of the kidneys. and they also
clean the exterior of their bodies to an
extent undreamed of in Europe or Amer
lea.
Another--and perhaps this Is the usage
on which the Japanese lay the greatest
stress--is that deep, habitual, forcible In
halation of fresh air is an essential for
thd acquisition of strength, and this
method is sedulously practiced until 1t be-
comes part of their nature.
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Words Garry Wei8ht|

into a richly colored medieval costume.
Any movement led to streams af blue
flames OF wondrous' beauty.
Flames Burst Out.
On eating the flames burst out afresh.
Illuminating the interior of the mouth,
and casting a blue reflection on the roof.
1.-THE light in the blue grotto at Capri"
I am able to affirm, lis not nearly so
blue" With him the visions did not
fade gradually, but the outer world came
back with bound. 1T was the sensation
only much Reconsideration everyone
has known on coming out into the light
of day from an afternoon performance
at a theatre
To a well known poet the drug glorified
the whole work-a-day world. Late in the
evening"" he says, II went out on the
embankment and was absolutely fasci-
mated by an advertisement which went
and came In letters of light on the other
side of the river. I cannot tell you the
intense pleasure 1t gave me. Two girls
and a man passed me- laughing loudly,
and lolling about as they walked. real
lied, intellectually their coarseness, but
usually I saw them. as they came under
a tree, fall into lines of delicate picture;
1t might have been an Albert Moore"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-10-09
DEMAND GROWS FOR
TROPICAL PRODUCTS
TOTAL VALUE OF SUCH PROD
UcTS BROUGHT INTO UNITED
STATES DURING PRESENT FIS-
CAL YEAR is $3.50, 55e,775.

washington, October ESPECIAL 1.-THE
growing demand of the people of the Uni
ted States for tropical and subtropcal
products Is pointed out in the annual re-
port of the chief of the bureau of sta
tistics, just issued by the department of
commerce and labor. 1t shows that the
total value of tropical and suhtropica1
products brought into the United States
during the fiscal year 1904 amounted to
t4SO,656,775, including those brought from
the Hawaiian islands, Porto Rico and the
Philippines. In nearly all of the tropical
and subtropichl products the importations
OF the fiscal year 1904 are materially
larger than in earlier years. while in
quantity the increase is even greater than
that in value, because of the declining
prices Of many of these articles.
The total quantity of sugar. for ex-
ample. brought Into the United States in
1904 from the tropics, including that
waiian islands, Is 4.675,627,S13 pounds
against a,3o5,OS7, 796 pounds in 1900 2,SS2,-
S2o's96 pounds in 1890. 1.s292S6.O3O pounds in
1880 and 1,196662, 049 pounds in 1870 Cof-
fee importations in 1904 amounted to $685.
S31,292 pounds, against 7S7,991,9l1 pounds
in 1900, 400, 159120 pounds in 1890, and 1885,
256,574 pounds in 1870. Importations Of
raw silk In 1904 amounted to 16,722,6l7
pounds, including all classes of unmanu-
featured silk under this title, against
11259,310 pounds In 1900. 5,93436O pounds in
1890 2,562,236 pounds in 1880, and 5S3,5S9
pounds in 1870.
Importations of fibers in 1904, including
those from the Philippine islands,
amounted to 299,951 tons, against 249, 3O6
tons In 1900, 1882 tons in $780, II, 751 tons
in 1880 and 1888 tons in 1870. Cocoa i'm
ported amounted to 72,277.6O0 pounds in
1904 against 41.746,S72 pounds in 1900, 49,
266177 pounds in 1890, 7.4O3.645 pounds in
1880, and 3,640, S45 pounds in 1870. Tea i'm
portations in 1904 amounted to 112, sos, DIG
pounds, against s4,S45,107 pounds In 1900
S3,SS6,129 pounds in $780, 72162, 1886 pounds
in $780, and II, 40S 4s1 pounds in 1870. Fruits
also show rapid increase In importa-
ton, the value of tropical and sub-trop-
.cul fruits brought into the United States
in 1904 heing $4,000, 500, against SIS, 1858 500
i'll 1900, sid,o2S,9oS in $780, and s7,416,592 In
1870. tss
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-10-09
PERSONAL.


r. L. Little of Jasper is at the EIillman.
R. L. Davis of Gadsden is at the Nor
ris.
S. K. Johnson of Atlanta is at the HILL
man.
G. W. Pratt of Pell City is at the Hill
man.
W. G. Harrison, Jr., is at the Metro
politan.
G. II. Beale of Montgomery is at the
Morris.
Cornelius Young of Selma Is at the
Hillman.
Colonial
c. C. Davis of Mobile is at the st.
Nicholas.
Nolan GIBSON of Corona is registered at
H. D. Collins of New York is stopping
at the st. Nicholas.
w. c. Stone and William Gray Of Dade-
vile art at the Morris.
w. E. Terry and C. r. Bell of Mont
gomery are at the metropolitan.
Edwin Chairsell has gone for two
weeks visit to st. Louis and Chicago.
w. B. Bankhead, the prominent attor-
ney of Huntsville, is at the Metropolitan.
Thomas Bradford of Montgomery. mem
Der of the state convict board, is at the
Morris.
Edgar L. clarkson OF Tuscaloosa came
to Birmingham yesterday to witness the
Clemson-Alabama football game.
Rev. DR.. J. w. Stage has returned to
the city and will fill his pulpit at the
First Presbyterian church today as u.s.
uai.
Colonel L. w. Johns and his wife left
yesterday for st. Louis where they will
remain about two weeks. Immediately on
their return to Birmingham they will
leave for Europe to be gone some time.
c. d. Ebsrsole and son, Louis, have re-
turned from Asheville, N. C. Mrs Eb-
ersoe will remain there for several weeks
longer with their youngest child, Claude
D., Jr., who is now convalescent after
protracted illness.
NJ ] Donahue, Auburn's football coach
is at the Metropolitan. Mr.. Donahue
played quarter back on the Yale varsity
team for two seasons, and is considered
one of the strongest football coaches In
the country. He came to Birmingham
yesterday to witness the Alaba ma Glenn
son game Next Saturday Auburn will
go to Couth Carolina to play the Clemson
boys, and the Saturday following they
will meet the University of Nashville in
birmingham.
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most intense by Pickering hrelight-the
men pray for "a good intoxication, and
then the leader hands the drug around.
Throughout the night the men sit
quietly around the fire in state Of rev.
erie-amid continual singing and the beat
Ing of drums by Observation-Disclosures in
, color visions. About noon on the follow
ing day, when the effects have passed
off, they get up and go about their bus
mess without any depression or other un-
pleasant after effects
Experiment With Mescal.
Mr.. Havelock Ellis determined to ex-
pertinent on himself with the drug. After
transient consciousness of energy he
felt faint and giddy. Pale violet shadows
fioated before him, suggesting, though not
definitely forming. pictures. The air
seemed to be flushed with vague per-
fume. Then he saw glorious fields of
jewels. which sprang into fower-lilSe
shapes beneath his gaze, and then turned
into gorgeous butterfly forms.
II was further impressed" he says,
mot only by the briliance. dellcacy and
variety of the colors, but even more by
their lovely and various textures He
compared them to living arabesques
Familiar objects assumed the beautiful
shadowy effects seen in Claude Monet's
pictures The visions subsidized into hui
man figures, fantastic and Chinese, as he
settled down into peaceful and dreamless
sleep, waking at his usual time with nc
fatigue or unpleasant "reminiscences. Ever
since, he believes he has been more SEN
sitive to delicate phenomena of light and
shade and color.
An artist to whom he gave the drug ex-
perienced pain at the heart and a sense
of eminent death. He says: with the
suOdenness of a neuralgia pang, the back
of my head seemed to open and emit
streams of bright color. had the sensa-
ton of the skin disappearing from the
brow, of dead flesh, and finally of a
SKULL His attire appeared to change
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-10-09
BATTLE OF SANTIAGO WHERE ADMIRAL SCHLEY MADE HISTORY

hesitation said 1T cheerfully that Mrs Schey ha
believe with good effect Such the
tmony of Admiral Schey.
Like of Santiago the thought sprung upon him
without warming and he disposed with the vim and
decision he did with the Spanish feet led by the Inflated
Viscaya
His words concerning Peruna have out into the world
repeated thousand tongues he had said them
Like the his victory Cevera his words concerning
% VIII pc Admiras Words Garry Weight d ~ P d
from mouth to mouth, oceans and continents
Except for Unborn manly independence country of free
speech would have uttered officer
occupying notable position that of Admiral Schey
Except worldwide notorety and popularity such
remedy could have received such opoken
public endorsement by such
His signed statement appears as follows:
Washington, d. c.
Peruna Drug Co.. Columbus, Ohio:
GentIemen-'H can CheerfuIIy state that Mrs.
SChIey has taken Peruna and believe with good
effect" ". s. SCHLEY