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field told the writer that General Ko-
DANA at all times not only knew the ex-
act location of every regiment of the
army of 100000 men each day, but knew
where it would be the next week. In
startling contrast to the slipshod methods
of the Russians, the Japanese made every
move by previous arrangement This
was accomplished at staff councils, held
before each battle. at which the field
generals, Kuroki, Oku and Nodzu to-
gether with their aids, gathered around
table or squatted on a kang Chinese
he'd and conferred with their superiors,
Field Marshal Oyama broad shouldered,
pock-marked, smiling. but always silent,
presided At his side was Kodama, small,
wiry, alert, never smiling. Suggestions
and plans were offered by each general
in turn. and even by subordinate Of
f1cers. Oyama listened, often duly, seldom
speaking Kodama made notes. domi-
mated the council, summed up the plan
of battle as appeared best to him. and
gave his conclusion. Field Marshal Oyama
listened while Kodama, the unknown.
schemed and weighed and organized vic
tory. Oyama nodded assent-and was pro-
claimed a Napoleon. Kodama, with the
modesty which characterizes most Japa-
nese generals, was content to do the work
and to remain unknown. Thus it was be-
fore Liao-Yang and Mukden and Port
Arthur. The real hero of the greatest war
of modern times is Viscount Kodama.
General Kodama was born in 1852 and
entered the army young When he was
about % years old he was sent to Ger
many to study military tactics In 1892
he was appointed vice minister of war,
and was minister of war as we'll as gov
ernor of Formosa in 10000 Just before
the outbreak of the war with Russia he
was appointed vice chief of the general
staff and afterward chief of STAFF of the
army in Manchuria.
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Calhoun Committee Meets Today.

Admission, July 25.-(speelal Don Hol-
combe one of the young white men SEN
fenced to a term on the streets for having
engaged in the riot here several weeks
ago, escaped from the changing yester-
day. Hocombe made a break, and the
last heard of him he had disappeared
over the Coal Chute mountain. He either
slipped one of the leg cuffs off over his
foot or broke the chain, as some parties
who saw him crossing the railroad state
that he had on only one shackle. Every
leffort will be made to effect Colombo 5
capture and return here to serve out the
remainder of his sentence.
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THE DREADNoUoHTs COST.
Britan's Latest Battleshlp to Have an
Enormous Armament.

London Special to the New York Herald
The first Official announcement respect
ing the battleship Dreadnought is con-
tanned In a White Book on naval con-
struction the last year which was issued
tonight. Besides the ten Pinch guns an
nounced the Dreadnought will have TWEEN
ty-seven 12-pound quick firing anti-torpe-
do boat guns and five submerged torpedo
tubes. In the arrangement of armament
six of the big guns. are mounted In pairs
on the center line of the ship and the
remaining pairs are mounted in pairs as
hroadsides.
Thus eight Pinch guns, or 80 per cent
of the plain armament, can be fired on
either broadside, and four and possibly
six Pinch guns, or 60 per cent, can be
fired simultaneously ahead or astern. In
view OF the modern personalities of tor
pe1o boats and considering especially the
chances of a torpedo attack toward the
end of a battle, the antl-torpedo boat
guns are widely separated. so that the
whole of Them cannot be disabled by one
heavy shell Special attention has been
paid to protection from submarine eX-
plosons.
After thorough consideration from every
point CT view The White Book states, ex-
perts mad no difficulty in arriving at a de-
cls:on to adopt turbines, which are con-
sidered more advantageous for seagoing
speed, providing sufficient stopping and
tn, ming power and for purposes of quick
and easy maneuvenng. The speed Is de-
signed to DC twenty-one knots. The bunk
er capacity is 200 tons, with which the
Dreadnousht can steam $500 sea miles at
economical speed and 1900 miles at
eighteen and half knots. The estimated
cost of the Dreadnought, including guns,
| is SS9S7 4S5.
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MRS. RUSSELL SAGE AS
HER HUSBANDS ADVISOR

Stanton and Louise Chandler Moulto1
Another one Of her associates in the VII
lard school was the girl who afterward
became the wife of Matthew vassar, founl
der Of vassar college.
Mrs Sage was interested with Miss
Helen Gould in many charities and So
eeties looking toward the Improvement
of the condition of the working women Of
the city. The business relations between
the late Jay Gould and Mr.. Sage had
been accompanied by a personal friend
ship between the two families, which had
continued, more particularly between Miss
Helen Gould and Mr.. and Mrs. Sage. since
the elder Goulds death. Miss Gould
often speaks of Mrs. Sage as her second
mother" and was always the first to
hurry to the Sage house on the occasion
of report about Mr.. Sage's illness. Miss
Gould IS now in Europe. as Is also George
J. Gould. Frank Jay Gould was much
surprised when told last night at the
Ardsley club of Mr.. sage's DEATH and
expressed his deep regret.
Two of Mrs. Sages nephews, both In
the army were favorites of Mr. Sage.
They are Capt Stephen LII. slocum of
the Eighth cavalry, Just ordered from
Manila to join the general staff at Wash
ington, and Major Herbert ]. Slocum of
the Second cavalry. lately at Fort Riley.
Kan. Capt. Stephen slocum was some
years ago a United States military at
tache at Cape Town. Later he went to
st. Petersburg in a similar capacity A
few days after he had been appointed
military attache at st. Petersburg Mr..
and Mrs. Sage were talking with an ac-
quaintance about the appointment and
Mrs. Sage asked
Tell me- do you think that is any billet
for poor young man."
Not much" said the acquaintance.
st Petersburg is the most expensive
court IN Europe"
How much do you think young man
In his position ought to have to be prop
erly provided for
AT least $4,000 year" was the reply.
My, myn' exclaimed Mrs. Sage in the
gentle way she has. What do you think
of that father"
Il think he better stay at home" re-
piled Uncle Russell sententously.
But Captain Sloeum took the billet and
kept his end up.
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1.-THE BAR SINISTER

Somerville Gibney, late editor of
Lodges Peerage contributes the follow
ing to the London News:
Sir-Among the many common mistakes
which seem destined never to be properly
grasped and as a consequence laid to rest
finally, is that of the term 'bar sinister"
now brought more prominently forward
by the publication of a book under that
title. with the work itself have moth
ing to do, but the title is one which sets
the teeth of every held on edge seeing
there can be no such thing as bar sin
ster The bar Is a heraldic term for
a band of color, metal. or fur crossing the
shield horizontally. and therefore, 1t is
impossible for 1t to be either dexter or
sinister. 1t is probably through the con-
fusion of the terms ''oend'' and bar"
that the error has sprung into being. the
bend bning elso band of color, metal, or
fur crossira Tho falioiA, but in a diagonal
direction from dexter 10 Minister. or vice
versa 1t must be remembered in de-
scribing or blazoning a shield it Is sup
posed to be held In front of the user and,
therefore, his right hand side would be
toward the left of any one facing It, The
bend can be dexter or sinister. as 1t starts
from either the dexter or sinister top
corner but in the case of the former the
word dexter is never inserted and the
charge Is described as simply bend.
Again. the bend sinister is as honorable
a charge as the bend itself, but when Its
width is reduced to quarter, and its ex-
tremities do not reach the confines of
the shield it becomes a baton, and this
II is that is generally regarded as mark
of illegitimacy In the case of the book
in point, the front cover carries the rep
resentation of an armorial shield quar-
tered and charged with a baton sinister.
yet bearing the title The Bar Sinister 8
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Test Case In Virginia.

II have been interested in reading about
Sunday violation test case in Rich
mond," remarked a member of Birming-
hams Virginia colony. In suburb
called lakewood Park smusements of a
comparatively innocent sort have been
in vogue on Sunday, but Jake Wells and
his associates in the management of Idle
wood were arrested last Sunday on the
charge Of violating the Sunday law. The
proprietors expected the arrest. Indeed
they rather coveted it In order that the
question might be settled for good and ali
mo liquor was sod at lakewood and
only the quieter amusements were Of
fered to the public. There is strong
sentiment among law-abiding people In
nearly every American community against
the Sunday liquor traffic. but innocent
amusements for the relaxation of men.
women and children is tolerated to say
4 the last. l am almost sure that Mr.
Wells Sunday enterprise in Richmond will
be kept a-gong.
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City of Restaurants.

washington, it is said" remarked a
visitor 10 Birmingham last evening. con
tains a restaurant on every corner. Bir-
mingham is full to the brim, itself, and
on every visit here. 1t seems that the
number Is increased It is evident that
the restaurants which furnish quick
lunches quickly are much in demand.
This fact is thoroughly typical of Biz
mingham. and all other hustling, cosmo-
poitan cities. People are really too busy
to give an hour to a meal. Wherever this
condition of affairs exists you will find
restaurants where a small lunch can be
obtained on short notice. The presence
of numerous restaurants. l believe, is
evidence of a citys growth and activity
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Russia's Gigantic Problem.

The upholders of the autocratic
principle have simply taken an appeal
TO the country, and new duma is to
be elected in December, to be convened
In the following month of March. The
issue before the voters Will necessarily
be that of constitutional rule as op.
posed to absolutism. The voters are
better educated than they were when
they selected the parliament that has
just been dissolved.
The Emperor has challenged the peo-
pie by driving out of the Tauride
palace the only parliament that Rus
Ma has ever known. 1t met on May
", and on July q it was driven out,
and the palace was closed against it.
Many of the members went to viborg
In Finland, where it was again dis.
persed. The representatives of the
people have returned to the people.
and the new electoral campaign will
be begun at once. Four. months IS
none too long time in which to edu-
cate the Russian people.
Whether the campaign will be per-
mitted to proceed in anything like an
orderly manner can not be foreseen.
u AZ arn,v ;c disa IN a consid-
cradle extent. and the entire country
Ia full OF discomfort and unrest The
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IN HOTEL LoBBIES
Bottle Throwing.

1T Is strange" said citizen who at
tended the ball game yesterday, that
some people viii throw bottles and other
things into the diamond. This afternoon
for instance, during the middle of an
inning. a coca-cola bottle was thrown
into the field. If the glass had struck
a player it would have injured him Sc
verely. There is the ever-present chance
of the bottle breaking. and some player
cutting his foot. 1t is altogether a most
pernieious habit. and one which it seems
to me should be broken up.
Il notice that the Birmingham police
force Is well represented at each game.
and l think that some of them should
occasionally catch the person or persons
who throw bottles and cushions. and
everything else that they can get their
hands on. It is always necessary for
the umpire to call for policeman. or
for a regular hstlcuff to occur, before
one of them is awakened"
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NATIONAL DEPARTMENT STORE.

Mime Irving in Leslies Weekly.
The national department store
Extends from sea to sea-
OF everything to eat and wear
It's full as 1t can be.
list of all 1t has In stock
Would reach from Portland. Maine,
To Tampa Florida, and back
To Portland once again.
There's cotton from the southern states
And watermelons fine,
And luscious peaches, velvet pink,
And yellow Georgia pine.
New Jersey milk and Texas beef
And Minnesota flour.
And cider from Vermont to drink
With apples sweet and sour.
There's California apricots.
The best you ever ate,
And cranberries from old Cape Cod,
Like rubies in crate.
And Louisiana sugar cane,
And salmon from the lakes.
And buckwheat from ten thousand fields
To furnish us with cakes.
There's silver, gold and copper ore.
The treasure of the soil,
And sapphres from Montana rocks
And Pennsylvania OIL
FTesh-water pearls of luster Mt
To decorate a queen,
End from Alaska sealskin furs
OF rich and glossy sheen.
From every land across the deep
In crowds they come to buy.
For with the goods Of Uncle Sam
No other shop can vie.
Beneath the same old starry sign
Our patriot fathers bore
The nation carries on today
A big department store
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$4,000 Bond Issue Sold.

Columbus. Miss, July 25.-(Special.) y
sieasongood & Mayer of Cincinnati offered
Al 2I96 premium on the $50. 900 issue of
tiwenty-year per cent municipal bonds
W hich the city will float, dated September
next The bids from many brokers in
different cities were opened last night and
this was the best offer the council re-
ee,ived. This is equivalent to paying
s.{66, about par. Tina ynDney received from
THE sale of this bond iEcts9 Wtia s9 convert
edb to many public improvements. Auienis
school building. another fire station estab-
lisfhed and other needed facilities.
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ouire and Choir.

ut is often the case,' remarked a
learned clergyman last night. that a
well educated person goes wrong in his
spelling. Now, only yesterday the word
choir was discussed by several we'll
known and prominent citizens of Bir-
mingham. In this connection. someone
remarked that 'qulre also meant a body
of singers Some of the gentlemen smiled
grayely and others simply looked incred-
ulous. However. the man who made the
original remark stood his ground. Had
we thought we would have known that
he was correct. However. we evidently
did not think, for 1t was necessary for
him to resort to a dictionary before we
were convinced. 'Quire' means body of
singers, the same as choir -
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ALABAMA PRESS

scottsboro Citizen: The farmers of our
county will have to build bigger. barns.
There is going to be raised an immense
corn and hay crop and storage room is
going to be serious problem.
Montgomery Advertiser: The remarks
of Judge Jones in reference to money
sharks. as published IN The Birmingham
Age Herald were truthful and timely.
Many a poor white and black man Is
robbed Of his earnings by exaetion Of
tenfold legal interest. when he once gets
into the clutches of some Of these con-
Germs There ought to be a state law IN
der which poor unfortunates of this class
can be protected.
Gadsden Evening News: We need more
stringent laws in Alabama in regard to
child labor. The greed for gain will ever
be stronger than the love of our fell
lows and the only protection the children
have against this besetting sin is that
thrown about them by wise laws strictly
enforced We trust the next legislature
will not overlook this need of our state
and look after the inherent rights of
the little ones, who are not strong enough
to assert them for themselves.
Huntsville Mercury: The ministers of
the city are becoming aroused TO the
gravity of the situation in the fight of
the dlspensary against the open saloons
and are placing themselves in a position
that cannot be misunderstood We were
authorized yesterday by Rev II. C. How
ard. pastor of the First Methodist church,
to state that while he is opposed to the
sale of whisky in any form. he prefers
the dispensary plan to the open sa-
LOOM"
Rev. H. E. Rice. pastor Of Dallas Ave-
nue. Baptist church, preached a strong
temperance sermon Sunday in which he
pictured the evils of intemperance and
placed himself on record as favoring the
dispensary in preference to the open sa-
looms.
The saloon advocates as is usual with
them, took advantage of the silence of
the ministers of the city to place them
In false light before the people of the
county
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TILE TO ARCTIC LANDS.

From the New York Tribune.
The voyage of the Canadian government
cruiser Arctic to the far north suggests
for consideration the question of the
ownership of some far northern lands
z or many years explorers of various ma
Wan and others, have ventured into the
frozen wilderness lying between the Do
minion of Canada and the north pole
and have there discovered lands hitherto
unknown, and have named them and
planted upon them. There has been much
international rivalry In the work of elab-
Grating the arctic map and of pushing
on toward the pole. But there has been
little thought In the minds of the ad-
delimitation of international boundaries in
the realms of paleocrystic ice and eternal
snow. But now the Canadian govern
ment brings that thought to mind in the
intlmation that the Dominion extends
clear to the north pole, and that all the
lands which have been discovered and
explored In those regions, no matter by
whom. are under the British flag
ACCIDENTALLY, the question is somewhat
complicated. and might form the subject
of interminable argument. There are
those who hold that discovery and ex-
ploration give little to new lands, while
others insist that title is not perfected
without actual occupation and permanent
settlement. But how If the lands in ques-
ton are not fit for or susceptible of set
tlernent?
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
ON The New York Press

From the New York Press.
There may be no real happiness in
riches. but there is real unhappiness in
poverty.
No matter how much you despise a
fiatterer it's mighty hard not to believe
his fattery.
II man hasn't any other bad habits
he can always even up the score by
going into politics.
The difference between a man and his
wife is she brags about his good habits
and he about his bad ones.
Stealing is such a habit with some high
financiers that they steal things they
afterwards try to get rid of as hard as
IL they were a case Of smallpox.
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From the New York sun.

T Yum liAc new 1OIK sun.
~ LII who knew Mr. Sage in his
V home life say that he could not
have chosen a better helpmeet
He and his wife whom he married thirty
seven years ago, knew each other in
youth, when the then Margaret Olivia
Slocum was a close friend of the first
Mrs. Sage. 1t is said that the latter
often used to tell her friend that in case
of her own death she hoped that Mr. Sage
would have the good sense to see that
there was no woman so well fitted to be
her successor. Miss Sloeum is said to
have laughed at her friends suggestion
and to have disclaimed any matrimonial
ambitions whatever.
Like her husband she cared little for
society and she would have found as much
happiness in a country cottage as In Fifth
avenue. She has on more than one oc-
caslon said that she took no pleasure in
her husbands wealth and regarded it as
an onerous trust.
Mrs. Sage had often endeavored to per-
suade her husband to give up his activity
in the street, telling him repeatedly that
they had enough money and more than
enough. Several years ago she made one
of her rare visits to the stock exchange
and for several months after that kept
urging Mr. Sage to quit the game and
spend the rest of his days In peace But
at last she gave up the effort, saying
"He has been at business so long that it
has become a necessity to him. Perhaps
1 am wrong after all, for. outside his
home, he would have nothing else to oc-
cupy his mind"
Mr. Sage's reputation for extreme fru-
gality was a sorrow to his wife, who often
took occasion TO defend him. She insisted
that he was a liberal man. despite what
she termed popular superstition and
in his views of life very liberal. As proof
of this statement. she once said that
when she desired to publicly connect her
self with the movement for woman's suf-
frage she hesitated to do so. but was
overjoyed to find that her husband was as
thoroughgoing a woman suffraglst as her
self
Mrs. Sage as girl was a pupil of Emma
Willard. She often refers to her old
teacher as my heroine. Among her
schoolmates in Troy were Elizabeth Cady
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SHOT ON THE LINE.
cossack Guards Even Encroach On
Prussian Territory.

Kattowitz, Prusslan Silesia, July ga
cossack frontier guard on yesterday after
noon shot man, presumably engaged In
smuggling on Prussian territory, near
Laurahutte. The guard then dragged the
seeing some farm laborers approaching.
Another account affirms that book
keeper who was walking unwittingly too
close to the Russian line, on being chal-
lenged by a guard, ran and was shot down
twenty yards over the Prussian side.
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calhoun Committee Meets Today.

A nniston, July 25.-(Specal.)-A call has
bee issued by Chairman j. A. Wallis,
thru ugh Secretary j. II. Edmondson, for u
NEE ing of the Calhoun county DEM
GRAFT executive committee at the court
houss here tomorrow The committee is
Gale, d together for the purpose of max
ing lplans for the holding of the state
PRIMARY on August 81. 1t is very prob
able that the committee will leave the
matter of managers and clerks to a SUBJ
comm ittee and but a short time will be
requiri ed for The meeting Thursday
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The latest reform relates to peniten-
tiaries. 1t is now said that a prisoner
should be permitted to go out at will,
turning his ticket over as he goes to
some one who is trying to break in.
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The Rockefeller reception at the
gangplank has been declared off"
The Ohio sheriff will not be there
Like the King. Rockefeller Is not sub
ject to a vulgar court
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Colonel Shook says the Mutual Life
the wri. of habeas corpus. and Is con-
scripting men to serve as its trustees.
Anything is possible in life insurance.
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The new railroad from Brunswick
proposes to capture birmingham by a
flank movement through Reeder's Gap,
which lies beyond Bessemer.
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Some one has told the Car that rev.
olutions sometimes go backwards, but
they do not. and me Gear will have to
accent the penalty of bad advice
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The Czat has not the nerve to order
General Stoessel to the scaffold. when
he omitted to round up the bureau
Gratis who led to the surrender.
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The capitol at Montgomery will
scarcely be recognizable when the leg
islature meets in January. SO extern
sive are the improvements on it,