The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-05

Many around me were hit, but Prov idence spared me, although I was in ad vance, and, if anybody did. led that at tack Some officers skulked behind a house. felt no fear, though I never forgot that any moment I might fall. The responsibility and the high duty as- signed me sustained me, and it was wonderful my own men didn't shoot me; they were so excited and were be- hind me.
 The book has sixteen illustrations. It is for sale by The Pease. Lewis Co.,; s1.5O.
 The story of how Russia, by intrigue and deceit, conquered Korea in 1897, i'll order to have something to throw over to Japan to keep her from precipitat- ing war over the announcement of the lease of Port Arthur, is told in Archer Butler Hulbert's romance, The Queen of Quelparte,' a new edition of whcih has just been issued by Little, Brown S5 Co.,, Boston. It is an ingenious story of the exciting experiences of a young American, Robert Martyr, who had en- tered the employ of Colonel Oranoff, of the Russian service, and incidentally fallen in love with his pretty daughter, Dulcine. These three persons are the participants in stirring and unusual events, many of which actually took place, not in Quelparte, but in the lit tie country of Korea, shortly after the Chinese-Japanese war. In carrying out the scheme of Russia, Martyr is sent to a Buddhist temple on Lynx Island to bring the imperial sarcophagus, con- taining the body of the murdered Ko- rean queen, to the Russian legation at the capital of QHelparte, preparatory l to a gorgeous funeral pageant The Chinese directed by Prince Tuan, are l alert, and, in order to prevent the event, blew up the temple in which the queens body was deposited before Mar tyn and his Cossacks could reach it. This appeared to prevent any funeral pageant, and, owing to oriental super l stition, threatened dire results; but at l the last moment Dulcine bravely imper- 1 sonated the dead queen, and the great l event occurred. With it's Korean color, It's clever plot. and the mixture of fact and fiction, The Queen of Quelparte'' is a unique and fascinating pseudo-his- torical novel of timely interest. MT. Hubert, the author, went to the 1 Far East in 1897 as a representative of several American newspapers, and To- cated in Seoul, Korea, then as now, the pivot in Eastern politics. He gained close and intimate knowledge of Rus sian politics and of Korean life. This knowledge he has incorporated in his romantic novel. For sale by all book | sellers.
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 This book, which is a substitute for a former work under the same title by l the same author, now out of print (the plates having been destroyed by fire) l is eminently volume of FACTS in- tended specially for the information ot practical men interested in the fue | question"
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 A new collection of "Chimmie Fad
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