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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-16
is THE NOVIK GONE?
There is Report That She, Too, Has
Been Sunk---The Gar Receives Dis
patches Telling of Terrific Fighting
at Port Arthur---Two StronghoIds
Said to Have Been Taken---Driven
Back Elsewhere.
(By the Associated Press. }

Toxic, Aug. 15.-11:15 a. MA dis
establishment at Takeshiki says Adj
miral Kamimura met the Vladivostock
squadron twenty-eight miles from
Ulsan, Korea, at 5 o'clock Sunday
morning The battle ended at 1880 a.
m. The Rurik sank by the stern, her
bow standing up perpendicularly The
Japanese rescued 500 members of the
Rurik'S crew
The Rossia and the Gromoboi
caught fire several times and were
heavily damaged.
Only one of the Japanese ships was
hit. Two Japanese were killed and
seven were wounded.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-16
THE FIRST CONGRESSIONAL.
The Convention to be Held at EdentoI
Wednesday.
Especial to News and Obscrver)

Especial to News and Obscrver.)
Washington, n. c., Aug. 15.-The
Congressional convention of the First
district Will meet at Edenton next
Wednesday, the 18th instant. The ju-
dicial convention will meet same day
in which there will be a contest for
both judge and solicitor. Geo. w
Wood, the present solicitor, is a candi-
date for udge, also l.. l.. Smith, OF
Gates and A. O. Gaylord of Plymouth.
In case Geo. w. Wood is nominated
the following are candidates for solic-
itor: II. S. Wood of Plymouth; Chas.
l.. Whedbee, of Hertford; Perquimans
county; r. w. Turner, of Elizabeth
City, and w. T. Woodley, of Columbia,
Tyrrell county.
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Fierce Fighting at Port Arthur.
(By the Associated Press.)

IBy IHt ASSUCIdltu ITtSS-J
st. Petersburg, Aug. 15.-The En-
peror has received the following dis
patch from Viceroy Alexieff dated Au-
gust IS:
According to q report from Port
Arthur August 10. the Japanese at
tackled Taku and Siahou mountains in
enormous force during the night OF
August 9 and occupied them after fif-
teen hours fighting on the night OF
August TO- During heavy rainstorn
the japanese attacked our east front
but were repulsed at all points. They
also attacked simultaneously oui
whole front from Wolf Hills to TAXI
mountain. but everywhere were driver
hack. The fortress has been bon
barded from the outside for foul
days"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-16
Earlier Report of Battle.
(By the Associated Press.

(By the Associated Press.)
Toxic, Aug. 15.-Vice Admiral
Kamimura encountered the Russian
Vladivostock squadron at dawn today
north of Tsu Island. in the Strait of
Korea, and attacked the enemy at
once. The battle lasted for five
hours and resulted in a complete
japanese victory. The Russian
cruiser Rurik was sunk and the
cruisers Rossia and Gromoboi fled to
the northward after having sustained
serious damage.
Vice Admiral Kamimura cables the
navy department that the injuries in
flicted upon his vessels were slight
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-16
Attacked by Land and Sea.
(Rv the Associated Press.)

Chefoo, Aug. 15.-11 D. m.-That
general land and naval attack was
made on Port Arthur today is indi-
Gated by information from various
sources.
The statement that the naval at
tack was made at seven in the morn
ing comes from an authoritative but
not diplomatic quarter. Junks which
arrived here today say that the Jap
anese recently occupied the Liaouti
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-16
Fell From Third Story.
Special to News and Observer. }

Asheville, N. c., Aug. ia negro
named Richard Hawkins was seriously
if not fatally injured last evening by
falling from the third story balcony of
a building in this city. The negro
was making ice cream and leaned
against the railing, when it gave away
and precipitated him to the pavement
below, the man falling a distance of
over twenty feet and striking on his
head and shoulders
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-16
The Novik Reported Sunk.
lBv the Associated Press

Chefoo, Aug. 15.--10:30 Il. m.-An
unconfirped report which has reached
here from Tsngtau says the Russian
cruiser Novik, which put into Using
tau, after the battle of August 10 off
Port Arthur, and which coaled there
and put to sea within her twenty-four
hours limit, has been sunk forty miles
from Tsingtau.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-16
THE RURIK SUNK
BY JAPAN'S GUNS
The Battle in the Straits of Korea Ends With One
Russian Warship Beneath the Waves
and Two Flying.

Hills and Sushiyen, which is two or
three miles north of the fortress.
Five warships and seven torpedo
boat destroyers, according to the
junks. returned to Port Arthur the
night Of August 10.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-16
Leads all North Carona Daies i'm News and Circulation

bear on Hon. r. II. HAYES to accept
the nomination for the legislature, so
strong in fact that his closest person
al and political friends are urging
him to accept.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-16

A girl who is too lazy to keep the
holes in her hosiery darned has no
business to monkey with the leap
year privilege.
If you are not feeling well just
take another look at the last bill your
doctor rendered and it's ten to one
YOU will feel better.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-16

Adversely has it's advantages. Bores
do not trouble you, and so-called
friends do not attempt to bleed you.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-16
SPARES THE DEVIL
Would Not Hold Even
Him Responsible For
Teddy's Cussedness
CBy the Associated Press.)

Washington, Aug. 15.-Another
chapter and probably the final one, so
far as the government is concerned,
was added today to the case growing
out of the refusal Of the Postoffice
Department to name a Mississippi
postofIice after Governor Vardaman,
of that State, by the PRONUNCIATION by
Postmaster General Payne of state
ment. which gave, without comment,
a letter from Governor NaEdamart
published in the Charleston. South
Carolina News and Courier. This let
ter, which is accepted by the Post
Office Department as confirming the
authenticity of Governor Vardaman's 8
editorial remarks about the mother of
President Roosevelt, is given in a
neWsnaDer publication as follows:
Anderson, August 8.-(Special.) y
Several days ago the editor of the
Anderson Daily Mail wrote to Gov
ernor j. X Vardaman. of Mississippi,
and asked him about the truth of the
assertion made by Postmaster General
Payne, that Governor Vardaman had
while editor of a newspaper in Mis-
Sissippi, some years ago, published an
editorial making a disrespectful allu-
sion to Mrs. Roosevelt. the mother of
the President
The Reply OF |ardaman.
The following letter has been re-
ceived in reply:
Executive Department, Jackson,
Miss, August 9Th. My dear sir:
Your very kind favor of the 4th in
slant has been received. If | had a
copy of the Commonwealth you desire
I would take great pleasure in send
ing it to you, but the files Of the old
paper are a hundred miles away.
There was nothing in that editorial
offensive to Mrs. Roosevelt or that
reflected upon her in the least. l
simply undertook. upon scientific
grounds, an explanation of Teddy's
degeneracy and general cussedness,
without holding his ancestors respon-
sible for it. [ thought / owed it to
his ancestors. Really ] should be
ashamed to charge the devil himself
with the responsibility of the infamy
of that distinguished accident.
Sincerely and cordially,
-. Is. VARDAMAN."
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SAD DEATH AT GOLDSBORO.

IT1O'o. ,. hOLIINS,
'Cham'n Republican State Ex. Com.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-03-24
CHARITABLE RICH, POOR M. D.
Wealthy Women brought Patients
10 Penniless Medic 10 De
Treated for Nothing.

''In my six months Of small-town
practice learned many other things,
and none more puzzling than certain
aspect of the charity Of the rich," says
the author Of "The Autobiography OF
a Woman Doctor" in Everybody's Mag
azine. "A number Of the women there
devoted much time to the poor, and
one OF their good offices was to bring
these to ME (often in their carriages)
and get me to treat them for nothing.
was desperately poor myself, having
others to help as well as my own liv-
ing to make, and confess my spirit re-
belled sometimes when these prosper
GUS and well-fed philanthropists pat
ted themselves for presenting my time,
strength and knowledge to their pro-
teges. I remember one case In partic-
ular, when I was called up on bitter
winter night by an Italian who could
not speak q word Of English and fol-
lowed him two miles through the
snow. where worked without help or
convenience Of any kind till ten the
next morning. to so home utterly
spent: and the consciousness of hav-
ing saved life was made trifie Bit
ter by the picture Of the lady patroness
who had donated my services waking
from placid sleep to congratulate her
self on her good deed. was humane.
but was also human. She might at
least have paid mel"
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-03-24
QUITE TOO SWEEPING.

There was once woman 50 woefuily
That she swept her whole family into the
street.
She lectured on tidlnees, day after day.
TIN the children ran or to the neighbours
TO play.
And. sometimes, the lord OF the manor
would roam
From his beautiful house which was
never q home.
Twas q splendid expression OF beauty
and art,
But 1t did mot possess homes one requi-
site. heart.
But this woman worked on with her
brush and her broom.
With her servants she battled through
room after room;
She vaxed and she polished her beautiful
noors
TN her friends hardly ventured inside Of
her doors.
Hex carpets SO velvety one would refuse
To walk on. until he had busted his
shoes:
Her chairs all 90 tldied. without and
within.
That to sit on them seemed little less
than q sin.
Her children had toys which they never
could spread
Ger immaculate floors: nor could cookies
or bread
Be eaten where crumbs might be scat
tered about.
For her house was like "wax-work' with
in and without.
OF dust, Just the least little innocent bit
Would bring on something akin to fit;
And n tidy or picture a trifie nwry
Could never escape her most diligent eye.
Her children grew UP and they hurried
away
As soon rs they couid. scarcely caring to
stay
Where brooms were a-whisking: they
sighed for a nest.
SfiIl neat, but Inviting q spirit Of rest.
And the day when the last Of her little
ones left,
And the home OF their smiles was forever
bereft,
She said, while for dust she still searched
up and down:
ssThey know I'm the finest housekeeper
In town"
Nixon Waterman. In Good Housekeep-
Ing.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-03-24
Couldn't Spare That.

In his early days Mr.. Tim Healy, M.
p, was a clerk. First railway clerk
at Newcastle, then mercantile clerk
in London, he began to make his mark
as London letter writer to the ma
ton" Mr.. Parnell gave him his
chance by taking him as private secre-
tary on his American tours in 1879. He
is now the keenest member Of the ma
tionallst party. and has had a seat in
parliament since 1880. Mr.. Healy mar
ried q daughter Of Mr.. T. d. Sullivan.
the poet of the Irish parliamentary
party. 1t is a tale that is told that
when leaving his father-in-law's house
for the honeymoon he absent-minded-
" picked up Mr.. Sullivan's umbrella.
mo, no, Tim," shouted T. D., don't
take that. have Ave daughters. but
only one NATURALIZATION Tit-Bits.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-03-24

times turned golden In moments OF
happiness. Unconscious that any out
slider watched her. she lifted them
and smiled at darkness through the
open window. The passes Of her
hands as she spun and the sweetness
Of life expressed In her face brought
q sob up Peggy's throat.
'T'll never be like her." whispered
Peggy. I'm q peg-legged Spaniard.
little for my age. and ugly. I can't
spin. can't sew. Sally says sQuaw
clothes are good enough for me, and
Shickshack has to cut them out, and
we piece them together as well as we
can. He's done 1t ever since we left
his people and have had no Indian
women to help us. I can't read like
Ann Rutledge does. II I could even
knit I could make stockings for Anty-
wine and Shickshack. They are the
only men in New Salem that have to
keep on wearing neips wrapped around
their ankles for stockings"
She set her teeth together so the
grating was audible. Something
stirred behind her, like one Of the
hounds creeping near. but she paid no
attention to 1t. A blanket dropped over
her head.
Peggy fought It with both hands.
hearing the crutch that had laid across
her knees roll to the ground. This
was the last sound she heard. Scream
ing in the muffling folds, she felt her
self dragged of the hand-mill and
carried away.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-03-24
Jaran's Mercantile Marine.
z. A. BKAYEEY IFopGETT!

Japan's mercantile marine Of late
years has made such vast strides that
now II is obtaining from its own ship
ping companies all the transports II re-
quires, not being obliged, as It was In
the war with China. to hire foreign
ships. The history Of maritime enter
prise in Japan is as romantic as that
OF most Of its other industries. During
the middle ages the japanese were dis
tinguished for their adventures. Korea.
China, Formosa, even the distant Phil
ippine islands, Cambodia and Siam.
saw the Japanese appear upon their
coast as peaceful traders or buccaneers.
In the seventeenth century the British
mariner win Adams built ships for the
shotgun. which made voyages to Manila
and even TO Mexico. Then. In fear Of
foreign invasion, Japan was cut Oh
from the world and for 200 years MOTH
ing but the smallest coasting vessels
were allowed to be built. It was not
until the revolution Of 1868 that the
foundation Of Japan's modern navy
were begun,
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-03-24
81 = The Question = "
\ of Army Supplies i'm the 4
. Far East y
the Siberian Railway Meet the Present Military
\ Necessities Of Russia

100000 roubles Of economics" In his
pocket.
Assuming that this precious railway
does not break down and is not blown
up, how will II be able to satisfy tho
demands made upon It? To answer
that. we must form some idea Of what
those demands will be.
Officially the Russian army in Man
churia is supposed to number 100000
men. OF this number, according to
the usual estimate, about 40 per cent.
will be efi1cient-or, say. 100000 men.
As Port Arthur is said to have q gar
rison Of 10000 men, and as there must
be garrisons at vladivostok and Har.
bin, and as, moreover. the railway will
have to be protected, 1t is safe to as
sumo that the available Russian field
force Is not more than 100000 nor less
than 10000 men. An army corps Of
10000 men and 10000 horses. II dis
patched from Russia to reinforce this
field army would require 1O4 trains Of
30 cars, of the kind in use, and mill
tary authorities give the rate of travel
ing at 200 miles a day. The Siberian
railway, which has length Of about
5000 miles, is stated to be capable Of
running six such trains day. That
means an interval Of II days between
the departure Of the first draft and
the last. The journey at 200 miles Q
day would take 25 days; thus 1t would
take AZ days, or six weeks. to trans
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-03-24

and the beard on her chin--saintsi !
am crawl all over! It Is not healt'y to
be scare all the time! I wear q charm
against her. When she take Shick-
shack I think I will 60 to my fathers
peop' in Canada. But II I do she will
have nobody but you when she is en-
rage. And see what is done to you
when we are but out OF the house,
sweetheart"
Peggy busted herself in silence and
threw an object from her which bound.
ed among the chimney ruins.
II am not going to be a peg-leg any
more" she announced. "I'll not strap
that wooden leg to my knee again."
But you not able to walk" said
Antywine. II carry you," he added. in
afterthougbt.
"Sbickshack will take me on the
horse when he comes. It's so ugly.
Don't you think peg-leg Is ugly.
Antywine?"
II have not consider" he responded;
adding. with French grace, mot any
thing that belong to you is ugly"
my mouth" suggested Peggy. 1T
will not shut"
1T is like the wild plum" said
Antywine, when the white bud is just
break through"
Though they had been housemates
almost year, Peggy and Antywine
felt that they were just discovering
each other. The tall, silent lad had
once in while ventured on some kind
ness to the girl. There was between
them the whimsical sympathy of COM
panions in misery.
And l am so little" continued
Peggy, after a silence. People think
| am only ten years old. Ann Rutledge
Is large and beautiful"
MAN selle Ann Rutledge," responded
Antywine, is too large to be carry.
You are not too large to be carry."
But want to be-" insisted Peggy.
Me, think you will grow" con-
ceded Antywine, indulgently.
DO you think | will always BIZ
lame?"
Il not know. The doctor in Belle.
willie cannot say"
The doctor in Belleville put that
peg-leg on my knee. Sometimes l
think If try to use my leg. Antywine.
II will grow stronger. But have to
hop yet when Sally takes my crntch
from me-"
''Shickshack think, and me, think
too, she have bring that lameness on
YOU"
II never contradicted her when she
told him II was fall; but she knows
when she struck me and how II hurt.
Don't tell him. Antywine Shiclshack
is SO good"
"She not fool me-" said Antywine.
Il think now will give you my charm
to keep off evil"
What Is it,"
He took her hand in the darkness
end laid q small image on the palm.
She knew II was something which their
religion taught them to venerate.
ITO Be Continued.l
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-03-24

DIV that the Russo-Japanese
war is In full swing. and
that the Russians have
practically lostthe command
Of the sea. 1t becomes q
matter Of interest to con-
slider what II may mean to
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-03-24
A Sufficient Hint.

Sir Ernest Cassel, the London mer-
chant prince, who gave 100000
toward the campaign against consump-
ton, has a dry humor, but only oc-
casionally gives rein to It in business
hours. At one period Of the time when
he was building up his vast fortune he
was annoyed several times by a boy
who wanted a place in his office. Did
you see that boy, who was Just In
here?" asked Sir Ernest Of his ONCE
boy one day after the persistent appli-
cant had made another plea Tor work.
81 saw him." said the boy. What
does he want?" "well," said the mer-
chant, he wants your situation, and
II l ever see him again he will get It"
The hint was sufficient. for the mer-
chant never saw the pest again
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-03-24

those who know anything Of Russia,
however, 1t did not come as surprise
to hear that a committee Of inquiry
was about to be appointed, with a view
to discovering what had become OF
these stores, and who should be
hanged. Therefore 1t will not be ex-
traordinary II the stores at Vladivos-
tok and other places prove to be very
much in the same condition as those
of the French army In 1870.
No stores. however, could be sufii-
GENTLY large to provide for the needs
of a modern army during an arduous
campaign. 1t is always difficult to es-
innate what an army will consume.
but during the Russo-Turkish war Of
1851 the Russian government spent
between $3.50, 900 and 100000 day in
provisioning their troops, one firm OF
contractors alone supplying over &c.
100000 tons Of biscuits. At the siege
of Paris, In 1901, the German army.
consisting Of 100000 men, consumed
per day: $4,000 loaves Of bread, three
pounds each; 100000 pounds Of rice;
sos oxen, or 10000 pounds; 14.400
pounds of salt; 100000 pounds of oats;
2,400, 900 pounds OF hay: $4,000 quarts
Of spirits-or considerably over 4,000,-
900 pounds of provisions. say 1000 tons
q day.
These figures will give some idea OF
the quantities Of food q modern army
will consume.
The question Of ammunition is less
easy to deal with, seeing that great
deal will depend upon the amount ex-
pended; In other words, the number
and duration of the engagements. The
consumption Of food. however, goes on
the same whether there is lighting or
not. It has been estimated that an in
fantry soldier will in action fire of at
the rate of 800 rounds Of ammunition
day. When we come to artillery,
the problem becomes still more DIM
cult to calculate In the absence OF the
necessary data.
Assuming the command Of the sea
to be lost, as It seemingly is at this
time, these supplies must be transport
ed by land. OF course, a certain
amount of forage and grain will be OBJ
tanned in Manchuria itself; but that
country is bare and mountainous. and
not by any means a land OF plenty
China will not be available. Most oil
the food which the Russian army will
need will have to come from Russis
and Siberia along that single line Of
railway which is the sole means o.
communication. The rails Of that rail-
way are too light to stand the traffi'
they will be subjected to. The manu-
facturers who supplied those rails pro
tested at the time against their light
ness, and strongly urged the expedi
ency of making the line more substan
tial; but the authorities would not lis
ten to them, and the distinguished gen
eral who built the line left for reasonl
Of health for western Europe with 80.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-03-24
/ IN from slough, and swept past him

up from slough, and swept past him
In a tearing race toward Beardstown.
"Shickshack and Sieur Abe" thought
Antywine. He shouted after them,
but they did not hear him. There was
SO little travel at that season he felt
sure these riders were In pursuit OF
Peggy, and comforted, he followed
lightly on, keeping to the spongy dead
grass by the roadside.
The humid forest stretching from the
bank of the Sangamon still darkened
his way with skeleton trees. He
passed an empty cabin which he had
seen once before when hunting
deer. The rain now began to pelt.
Though he had lived SO long among
English-spealiing people at Belleville
that their language had become In a
measure his own, Antywine never
found himself able to part with buck
skins. The hunting shirt was some
times exchanged for one Of linsey, but
buckskin breeches. molding his supple
limbs down to his moccasins, he al
ways wore, making them himself, as
his father had done before him. In
different to weather, he stepped on
through darkness and was within
hands reach OF an unsteady object
before he saw It.
Antywine gave laughing shout to
scare wolf and followed 1t by an ex-
clamation. He lifted the topping fig
ure In his arms and ran back with 1t
to the empty cabin.
Peggy had blanket around her, but
she was wet and cold and seemed
partially stunned. The puncheons or
split logs which floored the cabin
sagged inward as II a sill had rottetl
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-03-24
RUSSIAN TRANSPORT

port an army corps from Russia to
Manchuria.
In the meantime what Is to happen
to the supplies. A train Of 30 cars will
carry 300 tons; an army of 100000 will
consume about 1000 tons Of provisions
day.
The situation is hopeless. The Jap
anese need not go to the expense or
give themselves the trouble Of blowing
up bridges and lengths Of line. The
railway will do its own deadly work
II left to itself. To all appearances,
therefore, the war will be Of short du-
ration.
The Japanese are supposed to be
able to place 100000 men in the field.
and to maintain such an army at that
strength for a considerable period.
Napoleon said that an army marched
on its stomach; we may go further and
say that It fights on It; the chances Of
the success of the legions Of the car
would seem to be remote. The Rus
slams are supposed to be superior to
the Japanese in cavalry. but this In
perhaps doubtful advantage In the
mountainous country OF the theater oe
war.
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