Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-04-03


like a ounce"
"Ycu mean his resignation mas
reached the Office of the admiralty al
Toxic
"Perhaps yeu think am not ca t.
the curves OF the language. mean
just what said l mean his resis-
nation has reached HIM
Well, it might be apropos 10 ex-
plain the isness # the matter, if you
intend to keep us listening to yCu
It's up TO old Takahibail to do that.
All know is that the japanese admir-
atty has resigned him instanter. Ii
you fellows persist in not getting on
to the news | guess III be able TO ca
Bile an account of your resignatlens be-
fore the present is ancient history.
The battleship Oidono swept
through the turbulent Eastern seas
with bone in her teeth as the three
correspondents sat in the captains
cabin and delivered the foregoing re-
marks. There had oeen much doing
on board during the past twentyfour
hours, and there was sefl some COM
motion observable of 20 countenan-
ces of the usually stolid soldiers anu
sailors.
Skoopski, the Russian newspaper
man who had been condemned by the
admiral to Imprisonment in the guard
room cf the ship for the entire period
Of the war, had escaped in myster-
ious manner, and searching investl-
cation as to the method of his depart
ure was now on foot. The correspond
ents were net suspected for it was one
cf their number who had worked the
ruse which brought the alleged 'tral-
tor" aboard. The admiral was furl-
Gus. He rad not only lost valued
prisoner. but he had lost his job as
we'll. Within an hour after he had ca
bled the fact that the Russian had es-
caped from his vessel he had received
a cablegram, stating in terse language
that his successor had been appointed,
and news had just reached the Mcle
st. Nicholas correspondent when he
mentioned it to his two companions IN
the cabin.
Cali wealth looks alike to me- hum
med the Cape Town correspondent.
81 don't care whether II is called rou-
bles, dollars, pounds cr yen, so II
hasn't got a hole in it,
"Now, do you suppose that has any
reference to actualities?' asked the
Shanghai correspondent, Frightening
up at the sound of the words.
''Ncthin' dcin', in my opinion said
the Mole st. Nicholas correspondent;
81 don't believe he could show the
price of a secondhand wash list at
Tien Tsin, and l understand that all
washing there is secondhand"
Honestly, I'd appreciate 1t if you
wouldn't worry about my financial
condition. replied the Cape Town cor
respondent; 81 have just mace more
money than either of you will see
during the whole war;
where are the plates and dies
that you used?'' asked others in cho-
rus; "didn't know you were an engrav-
er or counterfeiter''
"Skccpski's gone, amt he?" asked
the Cape Town man in reply.
They admitted the fact.
"Do you know where he is?" con.
finued the Cape Town man.
They did not.
81 do;" he is at present taking tea
with General 1ullimoff in the club at
Port Arthur, anfI guess he has told
a few things that prove of interest to
us in case we are ever captured by the
Russians. I imagine, for instance,
that it would be quite touching for us
if the subject of the czar had us and
knew that We trapped him into coming
on board this ship and being held in
irons for a week.
"Shut up; We didn't have anything
to do with it; we just asked him over
and the admiral imprisoned him for
treason" said the Shanghai cores
pondent nervously.
eyes, he did, don't think" said the