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A Big Battle
Is Expected Soon
gt. Petersburg, Oot 12. — A battle
upon whiho the fate of this years's
campaign in Manchuria depends seems
only a few days ahead. According to
unofficial reports, Field Marshal Oya
nj», at the first sign of General Knro
p^tkin taking . the offensive, began
drawing in his line and concentrating
npon fortified positions north of Liao
yang. According to the latest reports,
which are contained in a dispatch to
theJAssociated Press from Mukden, the
Japanese outposts aie being driven in
all along the line.
The strategy of the forward move
ment will be concealed, as were the
preparations for the advance, so that
all surmises as to where General Kuro
• itkin intends to strike are mere guess
work. It is not clear whether General
Kuropatkin contemplates a blow on
the center or right of the Japanese
army, but the fact that stress is laid
upon the capture of Bentsiaputze,
which opens the road and forts to Ben
sihu, 20 miles east of Liaoyang, where
General Kuroki crossed, and that Cos
sacks are already reported in the neigh
borhood of the stream, might fore
shadow an exact reversal of the battle
of Liaoyang, this time the Russian
commander flanking and turning Liao
yang with his left, as Field Marshal
Oyama did with his right.
HEATH WINS AUTO RACE.
One Man Is Killed. One Injured, in
the Contest.
New York. —George Arents, a New
York millionaire, lies dying in a hos
pital in Long Island, and his chauf
feur, Carl Meusel, is dead, as a result
of the race for the cup offered by W.
K. Vanderbilt, Jr.
Arents' car was wrecked by the
tires slipping. The chauffeur was tak
en to a hospital horribly mangled, and
he died half an hour later. Arents
was also taken to a hospital, where it
was found he was suffering from a
cerebral hemorrhage, and at an early
hour he was not expected to live. His
family had been summoned to his bed
side.
The committee considering the pro
test lodged by M. Clement disallowed
the protest. Heath, who finished first,
was declared the winner.
Four wheeled vehicles of all sorts of
incongruous shapes rushing along the
road at a speed of from 60 to 90 miles
an hour, the air resounding with the
"honk, honk," of horns, the clanging
of bells and the shouting of guards,
signal flags waving and fluttering, and
an occasional cheer from thousands
of throats, stirred the atmosphere in
Mineola, Hempstead, Garden City and
other Ixing Island suburbs of Greater
New York during the 300 mile auto
mobile race for the W. K. Vanderbilt,
Jr., cup.
SPORTS.
The University of Washington open
ed the football season Saturday after
noon in the presence of 1000 persons
by defeating Whitman with ease. The
score was 33 to 0, and only the sound
of the whistle kept the 'varsity froai
making the score larger.
Major Delmar made a new trotting
record Saturday when he circled fhf
track in 2:01%, clipping a half se.jr.nd
off the record made by Cresceus at
Columbus. Major Delmar used no wind
shield or other speed contrivances.
The best defense that Princeton has
yet met was encountered in the Wash
ington and Jefferson game Saturday
afternoon, when Princeton won by Its
to 0.
Pennsylvania State college was de
feated by Yale by a score of 24 to 0,
and the Yale coaches were greatly
pleased over the result, as it was the
hardest game that Yale has had to
play for several years so early in the
season.
The University of Idaho defeated
the Lewiston State Normal school, 23
to 4, in a rather one sided game of
football at the Moscow ball park Sat
urday.
The Colfax High school team de
feated the state normal at football by
a score of 16 to 0.
The battle between Jerry McCarthy
and Jim Burrows, which will take
place at Spokane October 14, prom
ises to be the best go yet seen in Spo
kane.
Fourteen Hurt in a Wreck-
Kansas City.—A northbound express
on the Missouri raciflc railway and a
freight train collided in the yards here.
Fourteen persons were injured, two
seriously, Mrs. J. M. Partello, wife of
Major Partello, commanding officer at
Fort Reno, OKla., probably fatally. The
injuries of the others were slight and
they resumed their journey. Major
Partello and daughter were slightly
German Bteamer nit Mine.
London.—Lloyds have received In
formation that the German steamer
Chiua was sung by a mine off Vladivo
stok. The China was a German steam
er of 1271 tons gross, commanded by
Captain Krubbe, and was last reported
afi leaving Hongkong with a general
cargo.
Salt Lake City, Utah, Oct. 14—At
the annual meeting oi the stockholders
of the OrgeonJShort Line railway held
here the eleotion of directors was post
poned until November 11. The reason
for this unexpected postponement could
not be learned, those present at the
meeting refusing to talk. The Oregon
Short Line is part of theHarriman sys
tem, and today's action, following the
leection on the Union Pacific board of
directors yesterday of William G.
Rockefeller and Henry C. Frick, has
caused considerable comment among
local railway officials. What makes
the situation the more interesting is
that the latg> jHamman holdings of
Norlitern Pacinc stock are vested in
the Oregon Short Line corporation. It
is the generally expressed belief among
local railroad officials that the control
of the Union Pacific system has passed
from the Harriman to the Gould-Rocke
feller interests, aud that today's post
posnement of the Oregon Short Line
directorate election foreshadows Rome
exceeding importaut changes affecting
the western railway situation.
Missoula, Mont, Oct. 14.—Leon Ren
ick foreman of a switch crew, met
with a horrible death in the yards here.
His engine made a flying switch and
backed onto a sidetrack. Xi nick walk
ed before the engine, either not hear
ing it or becoming confused.
The'engine caught him in the back,
throwing him down and running over
him. Both legs were cut off above the
knee and his right arm was severed.
His head was terribly cot and braised.
Admiral Dewey has again offered to
assume command of the combined fleet
in the winter maneuvers in the Carib
bean sea. If his services caii be spared
from the preßidnecy of the general
board at that time Secretary Morton
certainly accept the admiral's
offer.
Field Marshal Oyama, telegraphing
from the field,to Tokio, says that oper
ations are progressing favorably.
The Russians have a strong force
down close to the Taitze river.
WAR, NOT PEACE.
Russia Insists on Fight to a Finish.
An article in the official journal of
St. Petersburg angrily attacks writ
er- who, in the face of a definite of
ficial announcement to the contrary,
continue to discuss the possibility of
arranging an early peace. It says:
"It is war, not peace, that we must
insist upon today. War to a finish, and
through it, victory at any price. To
lay down arms after blood has been
spilled and humiliation suffered in a
conflict which we did not seek, would
it not be to trample under foot nation
al dignity and spit in the face of Rus
sia, to which some of these peacemak
ing philosophers claim to belong?"
A complete transformation in the
public mind as to the aspect of the
Manchurian campaign has now spread
to all classes, and its effects are ev
erywhere visible. The public no lon
ger describe the Japanese generals as
it did before the battle of Liaoyang, in
despairing terms as men of diabolical
cunning whom no Russian could ever
hope to outwit.
Public dismay is profound at see
ing daily incontestible evidence of a
powerful cabal directed against Gen
eral Kuropatkin. The people are ab
solutely at a loss to understand why
the morrow of as great and success
ful a strategic achievement as the
world's history records, Kuropatkin's
withdrawal of his entire force from
Liaoyang, was chosen by the czar for
the appointment of a general of sec
ondary standing to be his equal in
command, while both will be under
some unnamed generalissimo.
WOMEN SOLD INTO SHAME.
Horrible Traffic Carried on in Russia.
Czar Nicholas has issued an order
to the governors of southeastern prov
inces of European Russia that they
must immediately put an end to the
disgraceful sale of young women, that
has become common since the begin
ning of the war. Owing to the de
pression in industry and commerce,
caused by the war, fathers and hus
bands have openly sold their daught
ers and wives to agents, who have
them exported to South American
ports. The sale of the women has
been carried on in open market with
out any attempt at concealment.
The average price paid for young
women is about $50, and the trade
has been enormously profitable to
them, as the Russian consuls at Rio
De Janeiro and Buenos Ayres have
reported that prices paid in these cit
ies by owners of disorderly houses
average $500. In future any man
found buying or selling a woman will
be banished to the Siberian mines for
life.
Princess Louise Is Sane.
Rome.—Dr. Bossl, the alienist, af
ter a visit to Princess Louise of Saxe-
Cobourg declared that he found in her
no trace of the insanity which has been
attributed as a reason for keeping her
under restraint. He added that he
founds marks of violence upon the
body of the princess.
LOOKING BACKWARD.
He never thinks a man la truly great until he's dead.
And then he wipes away a tear and quotes what be has said.
He talks about the nations that long since have pes**l away.
And mourns when lie compares them with the nations of tu-dty.
He talks about his boyhood nnd the fun that folks had \h*u.
He talks about the actors that we ne'er shall aet> again.
He vows that everything worth while long since tuts gone N'for^
And life to him is Just one grand, sweet funeral— nothing DMT*.
—Washington star.
CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE.
r^\ OBBRT MALCOLM had never
JC\v been Called "Hob" by any on*
*^ until his recently acquired wife,
with a coquettish pretense of shyness,
had ho addressed him.
He had known her but n short time
when he won her. And now, at the
end of six blissful months, he was sit
ting In his splendid library, perplexed
nnd miserable, and gloomily eyeing the
embers of a grate tire and trying to
persuade himself that the shadow
which threatened to wreck his future
could be explained away if only he had
the courage to ask her.
On coming home that afternoon he
had gone to the sitting room and had
found it empty. Turning to leave he
saw a piece of note paper lying on the
floor, as though it had been brushed off
her desk as she rose in a hurry. In
stooping to replace it, his eye caught
two words, the beginning of a letter
"Dear Tom." Dear Tom! Could it be
that there was a dear Tom In her life
of whom he knew nothing? The letter
read:
"Dear Tom —If I were to be asked
why I am writing to }-ou I should have
to admit that 1 am yielding to an Im
pulse. My whole life bus been made
up of impulses, and I never battled
with them but once—alns, the very
time I should have yielded. You know
well what 1 mean, that night you re
nounced me, renounced me while your
blood was on fire with love for me,
which I knew and felt and revelled in.
when your eyes dumbly begged me to
refuse to be renounced and your lips
told me it would be better to part. Ah.
if I had only yielded then to the Im
pulse to tell you I loved you well
enough to share your poverty and the
i task of caring for your poor, helpless
father. How well I remember that
dear, delightful, cruel summer in Dork-
Ing.
"You came, dear, and you stepped
into my heart with that first smiie on
your brave, sunny face. Then, after
ward, Aunt Sarah, when I told her of
our betrothal, said In her Icy, sneering
tones: 'I congratulate you upon your
discretion. It Is a fitting thing that
you should marry Tom Bpencer and let
your early poverty be merged Into mid
ile-aged and elderly poverty. As Tom
Spencer's wife you will have the satis
faction of knowing that you have be
fore you such a life as your mother
has led, only intensified, since your
life will be encumbered by his help
less, paralytic old father.'
"Tom, dear, do not utterly despise
me when I tell you that her words had
their weight. I did not fenr the pov
erty, for I knew you were bound to
•ucceed, If only, dear one, you were
not hampered In your career by your
father. I knew you were fond of him,
and that while he lived you would keep
him with you—that even I could not
Influence you to send him away. B<>
when you told me we hud bettor part I
offered no protestation. I knew your
heart was aching and that you needed
comforting words from me. i knew 1
had only to speak one word to break
down the barrier ami have you tak«*
me to your heart forever. I did not
speak that word. Though my heart
cried out to you I could not tell you
that I loved you well enough to share
your burden. I did not apeak that
word. I am married now. My baa
band loves me, and I am rich beyond
my fondest expectations. I have all
those things which my luxuriouH and
expensive tastes craved —yet I am not
happy. This it indeed my farewell,
dear one. You know now—every word
in this letter baa told you—-what you
are to me. You will not in launder
stand —you will not come to me. It la
over, Tom, and "
Here the writing ended abruptly.
liobert Malcolm was a loyal man,
and though the evidence was agatiiHt
her he refused to believe his wife guil
ty of all that the letter Implied. He
told himself that If he dared to ask her
for an explanation she would give It.
and it would be satisfactory. To ask
her to confess a dishonorable act was
also to confess a lack of confidence in
her.
While he was sitting there the door
opened noiaelesly. A slight girlish fig
ure stole across the thick carpet and
behind his chair. Two soft small hands
were clasped before his eyes and a
voice whispered:
"(iuess who It is."
Hi* heart gave a great bound and
lit* took the hands down and kl«««Hl
thorn. l'innlly. tH if vit;«::.-.i « till
what In Hff, he ksked:
"Have you bran shopping ?**
She seemed .surprised nt the trivial
question following *<> closely upon
the scrutiny the unit undergone. and
■aid:
"Is that all, Mr. INu-l'.-nr.n Qrm
clous, how you ■..in.'d me. I e\pe< l»«il
to lu'iir you Bay Hi sepulchral tones.
'Woman, there Is guilt on jour fae»—
where hnvo you hidden the t>.>.iy V And
instead, after that koul searching *«*•*.
you ask the commonplace question in
commonplace tom». ll«\« jou been
■hopping?* "
With ii nigh of content mill love and
relief lie threw his arms round her
and drew her cloM to him for a mo
ment. Theu nhe seated herself oj>jm»
site him In ii low chair, where Ilia
firelight fell on her face, bringing out
all Its charm.
In the magnetism of her presence
her IniHtiHiiil became almost happy
once, more until th«» memory of that
letter came back la sting Mai
Suddenly he asked her:
"Adele. were you ever In Dorking?"
She opened wide her eye« aud an
swered
"No, dear, why do you ask?"
"Just curiosity." Then, after i
pause, he added: "DM you ever kno'n
n man named Tom Spencer:"'
She laughed softly a ltd, folding bei
duinty hands, replied:
"Now am 1 Indeed on the rack. Wtaj
torture my Innocent soul with the cv
rloaitj to know the reason for plat-in),
me in the witness box?"
At bet Irreveiant answer his doubt»
rose again, ad he rather uternly t» -
peated Ills question, vita i request t. "
a direct reply.
"Toil) Spencer — 11.111 Spencer - -
where have I area or heard tLi t
name?" she queried softly, as If •>
herself. "I certainly don't know au
Tom Spenc.-r, but i belle** 1 tun
board the name somewhere."
"And now. you dear cross ogre. c:>»
there any more conundrums for in*?
HecauHo, If you have finished, I «'. '.
go and dress for dinner "
He laughed and watched her dlaai ■
pear through the door.
a month passed, and during th «
time Hobert Malcolm tried to detect *
flaw In his wife's devotion to Justify
him In the doubt which would creep a
whenever he thought of that letter.
Hut It wan In vain that he hour In r;
explanation la her manner. The -
was nothing about her to sugs<>*t th t
wealth bad palled upon her. or th t
without poverty and Tom Spencer hf
life wan a blank. Shi< was as em
airily affectionate, daintily tyrann: 1.
flippant and serious In aaa brettJ,
with that "infinite variety" which wm
her greatest charm. On* night wb ■•
they had returned from a dun. * be i •
elded to make a full confession to I •/
and to auk her for an eiplanati< a
She had thrown herself into in wif
chair and looked even fairer than a *
al.
Making a Una] effort be twßan. Bs*
rapidly li.- told hei ail all atnxit >•
letter, til- doultf* ami denjiair and i I■onbapptncMl■
onbapptncM <.•• f«-lt Mii.-nr%*r fn
thought of thi> matter. While be v .1
talking *(>«• was looking i..»n c.si
twiMtlns the ring* on her »i.-ii<)»-r './^
gen. When be !iii!s!i«-«j »hr hwiWed »»
at him with ft «Im» «:i. ■!».•.! mi I
creeping over h«-r f«<n»
"Now I understand those questl ai
you asko<l in* abutit Tom Mpeu * :
Yen, that wan the name—and I kn *fT
why the name seemed fajulllar to
me."
"Well, what .»f Torn B|i*o<-^r? \ to
ia be-"
"He Is a creature <>f mv own a
agination, and ODC* baring crt-i «d
Thomas I straightway forgot 15a.
When you aaked Die that da; I vu
dered where I had heard the nai.c *
"What do you Ufmu'r" he Aeea.- uj
ed.
"Only this, Boh but first yon r «t
promise not to lauirh at m«. '&•
btopp^i, looklnx at him anxiously, tie
nodded Impatiently, and ah* went -vn.
"Some time ago 1 coucelr«d th» M
of being literary. ! thought oat a *■ ry
and decided that I would depart t >m
the usual routine and hare It told fi a
series of letters. You got bold of the
beginning of the story. I was a ad
away that day, and never tb< . »at
again of my literary reotur*.**
11l drew ber op to him sad tben.
• m bis anas around tar, be asked M
a Iw-*» wtiisprr:
\\i4m, will you forgive n»«r
$*« t answer she put her arms nisi
» • Mst and then replied softly:
if you'll promise never to doubt me
««alii.-
Tli*> promise and the forgiveness
*-#n consummated In one long kiss.
A week later hi a local paper llob
•rt Malcolm happened on the follow
■
"Oorklng. April 23—Mr. William
>t- mem, m old and re*)**. t«i citizen
■»f his city, died yesterday afternoon.
Tb»» il.s v««i| hud long been a sufferer
fn, li pnntlyniH. but his death was on
••i[«»eted. lie leaven one son. Mr.
iii.'inn^ Bpracer, with whom he lived.
«» nmirn his lues." \\a\»-riiv Maga
'.In i.
SCIENTIFIC BEET CULTURE .
A £><-{>■ Imm of Itnlm Agricultural
M, ho.il Devoted to It.
t department of the agricultural
hJjfc school at Berlin was recently es
'.i'.|is!n«.l whh'h i« devoted entirely t.i
t!*i study of the scientific culture of
b**t sugar. Beet sugar cultivation on
»•-■ Industrial ■*,•!»!«• In <;< vnnany date*
fp*m but little more than fifty year*
•£o. save a consular report, and to-
«rd the end of the '6Ua there iru
ettablUhed In connection with the «k'
itturaJ high «clhm>i a email work
ing lattoratory which, under the direc
tion of Prof. Or. Schelbler. devoted
r.« somewhat restricted facilities to th«
etnas) of scientific sugar production.
There w«re then In Germany about
lit!) more or leas primitive sugar fat--
Has, whi<h workeil up annually Mi
ui> tons of beetn. 'Hiese had multl
tiled In 1900 to 31«) factories, which
• ruined I.VJHH ton* of beets, or an
menace of more than 33.0U0 ton* tn
etch MMIbNMMMML Meanwhile, the
requirements of the tim« bad far tram
MKi«»d the capacity and facllltlmi of
•l« Institute founded by Prof. Rcbelb
ft, and the new •pn<M<ni« and com
,'tletely equlpp«>d eHtabllshni«nt Daw
opened and dedicated to Its work eplt
• oitKP* flmtiy the prenent state of the
uigar Industry In Ciennany. It Is r+<*
JKnlxed her* atwve all that the abo
lil.iii of export MMM by the M>
'«!■ conference ended definitely a long
>ad Important chapter In the, history
•f beet sugar production and that the
i Industry, deprived of that form of artl
i 'I'-lai ilimuliM, must hencefortli work
out It* own future upon new and In
dependent linen. It t« In Li' a battle
La which scientific methods, profoundly
1 v.ufM. •» (■,•'! RkillfuUy applied, aloun
•■«n win. To conct»ntrate all the light
which nclence can give upon the task
.of producing in<x«i economically from «
'given area of ihii»l the largest weigni
,'of Ix^'tn with the hlghe«t percentage <>l
; aao'hxrine element, to harvest MM
| 'Crop, eitra«-t, cleanse Hid evaporate
' the Juice, and to conduct each step of
1; the process down to the marketing of
the refined sugnr with the utmost skilJ
and avoidance of waste—this Is the urn
•on which the n*w Institute is designed
lid equipped to teach.
OFF BY AN EAGLE.
I.ittla Girl of 1M Month* Killed by
King of liirda.
While, a little girl, about 18 months
old, the only daughter of a younx
Sutberlandshire crofter, living about a
mile from Invembln station, on to*
Highland railway, was playing at her
father's cottage door one evening an
eagle swooped down, gripped h»-r In
Its claw* and carried her off to the
mountains, where, some hours later,
her dead and mutilated body was
found by a gamekeeper, says the Lm
don Ex press.
At first there was no clew to th«
mystery of her sudden disappearance.
The little one had been playing In the
sunshine while her mother was baking
bread and M* father was still at work
iii the fields.
Her baking finished, the mother pre
pared tea and called the child. As
there was no renponse, she went out
to look for her and not seeing her any
where became alarmed and went in
search of her husband.
Meanwhile a gamekeeper's party
was bunting through the dense broom
which covered a neighboring hill and
while this Investigation was In prog
ress one of the gamekeepers, recalling
stories of lambs being carried away
by eagles, m*de his way toward the
rocky crags near the crest of the bill.
Id a crevice In the rocks be saw a tiny
shoe and in a deep cleft a little higher
up he found the body of the missing
child.
Two years ago an eagle attacked
and killed a deer In Sutherlandshir*
and fed on its body until the keepers
drove It off. Lambs are sometimes
missed and their skeletons afterward
found on the hilltops. It Is fifty years.
however, since such a tragedy as that
related occurred.
When He Was Not Looking,
A modern instance of avoiding Scyl*
Is to dash upon Charybdls comes from
the Washington Star, by th* way of
Uncle Eben.
- *Talu t good to be too skeery," said
the old man. "I once koowed a gem
man dat got his mind so tore up 'bout
germ* an' bacllluses dat be didn't look
wbab be were goln'. an' got ran obcr
by a truck."
